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0 pointsadam_arthur3y ago0 comments

There's a natural stickiness to cloud infra and SaaS which lends providers a pseudo monopolistic pricing power, even when competitors are present.

Some regulation requiring a common API and one click solution to transfer between providers would help solve this. Needs to be implemented intelligently though

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londons_explore3y ago

One simple way to do it would be if the FTC announced:

> From January 1st 2023, we will consider it anti-competitive for cloud providers to price internal service bandwidth at a rate lower than internet bandwidth to a competing service.

throwaway484843y ago

Big companies like Amazon, Google or Microsoft could set the price to zero, and their smaller competitors would be losing a lot of money each month? Basically an easy way to get rid of the competition

Sounds like it would mostly benefit the large companies

It would be better if internet was considered basic infrastructure and funded by taxes like roads.

adam_arthurOP3y ago

Yeah, a lot of thought needs to be put into the actual rule, but something along these lines... While accounting for unintended consequences

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