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Does anyone know if the definition of "gatekeeper" extends to infrastructure services like AWS or Cloudflare? > A small number of large undertakings providing
by baobob 4y ago
Does anyone know if the definition of "gatekeeper" extends to infrastructure services like AWS or Cloudflare?
> A small number of large undertakings providing core platform services have emerged with considerable economic power that could qualify them to be designated as gatekeepers pursuant to this Regulation. Typically, they feature an ability to connect many business users with many end users through their services, which, in turn, enables them to leverage their advantages, such as their access to large amounts of data, from one area of activity to another. Some of those undertakings exercise control over whole platform ecosystems in the digital economy and are structurally extremely difficult to challenge or contest by existing or new market operators, irrespective of how innovative and efficient those market operators may be
Sure sounds cloudy to me
edit: it seems to be explicitly covered:
Article 2
> (1) ‘Gatekeeper’ means an undertaking providing core platform services, designated pursuant
to Article 3;
> (2) ‘Core platform service’ means any of the following:
> (i) cloud computing services;
Article 3
> 1. An undertaking shall be designated as a gatekeeper if:
> (a) it has a significant impact on the internal market;
> (b) it provides a core platform service which is an important gateway for business users
to reach end users; and
> (c) it enjoys an entrenched and durable position, in its operations, or it is foreseeable that it will enjoy such a position in the near future.
This act sounds like the US tech equivalent of Thor's hammer
- hrgiger 4y agoIt gives me feeling also kindle covered
- shkkmo 4y agoDoes it also cover gaming consoles?
- MichaelCollins 4y agoHopefully. Game consoles normalized the shit Apple is doing.
- nonameiguess 4y agoI'm not sure how this would mean anything for a service provider like AWS. You can already install and run whatever version of your own services you want on bare EC2s, and if you don't want to use the xen hypervisor for some reason, you can buy bare metal instances and do whatever you want with them. It's already possible to run OpenStack on AWS if you really want to do that.
- baobob 4y agoMany orgs buy AWS for the unified billing and control plane. That part is fused shut and precisely addressed by the text (not quoted above). I can't as a third party build a service that competes with AWS and give it the usability that is possible buying direct from AWS