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Cloud procurement on WindowsForum.com covers the evolving landscape of purchasing and managing cloud services, with a focus on complexity, cost control, and regulatory compliance. Discussions highlight partnerships like Green Cabbage and Flywl that aim to simplify cloud marketplace buying, while Europe's push for digital sovereignty drives reclassification of workloads under EU legal control. Autonomous FinOps platforms such as ProsperOps automate rate and workload decisions to optimize cloud spend. Google's Data Transfer Essentials eliminates egress fees for multicloud transfers in the EU/UK, reshaping procurement strategies. Microsoft's Azure interoperability certifications also factor into procurement decisions, emphasizing security and partner programs.
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    UK Microsoft Lock-In: Public Sector Procurement and AI Portability Amid CMA Review

    The CMA says it is still weighing whether to designate Microsoft as a "strategic market status" firm. A guest opinion piece argues that UK public buyers can't wait for that process to finish before acting on Microsoft dependence. The piece is by Bill McCluggage of Laganview Associates, published...
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    UK Public Sector Cloud Spending: AWS Leads Identifiable Awards as Azure Appears in More Notices

    AWS leads the UK public-sector cloud contract value that can be cleanly identified, while Microsoft Azure appears in far more procurement notices. Those findings are not contradictory. Computer Weekly’s analysis of BidSkim data covers £8.96bn in cloud-related contract value across 1,156 notices...
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    EU Data Center Sustainability Labels Expected in 2027

    The European Commission proposed a common sustainability-rating scheme on September 21, 2026, for EU data centers above 500 kW, aiming to make their energy and water use more transparent through facility-level labels expected in 2027, subject to scrutiny by the European Parliament and Council...
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    Oxide Cloud Services Launch: South Africa Buyers Must Verify SLAs

    Oxide Cloud Services has launched publicly in South Africa as a locally hosted cloud offering backed by Data Sciences Corporation, promising rand-denominated billing, local engineering support and infrastructure hosted in South African data centres. The practical message for IT teams is clear...
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    Europe’s Push for Digital Sovereignty Reshapes Cloud Strategy and Procurement

    Europe’s scramble for “digital sovereignty” has moved from regulatory rhetoric to procurement reality: large firms and public bodies are actively reclassifying which workloads must stay under EU legal and operational control, and that reclassification is reshaping cloud strategy across the...
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    Airbus for AI and the EU sovereign cloud: pragmatic European data sovereignty

    Airbus’s public pivot — described in some policy and industry discussions as a push “towards farewell to big tech” and a call for an EU sovereign cloud for data — is the latest and most emblematic sign that Europe’s industrial players, regulators and cloud incumbents are converging on a new...
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    Google Data Transfer Essentials: No egress fees for in-parallel multicloud in EU/UK

    Google has moved the cloud market’s chess pieces with a tactical — and loudly publicised — concession: for customers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, Google Cloud will no longer charge data‑egress fees for qualifying “in‑parallel” multicloud transfers through a new offering called...
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    Google Enables Free Multicloud Data Transfers in EU/UK Under Data Act

    Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...
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