Google Cloud’s surprise decision to waive certain multicloud data‑transfer fees across the European Union and the United Kingdom has the potential to rewire the commercial logic of cloud strategy in Europe, but it also exposes a complex web of technical, contractual, and regulatory questions...
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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...
Google has announced a dramatic change to how it charges for cloud data movement in the European Union and United Kingdom, waiving fees for certain multicloud transfers through a new “Data Transfer Essentials” option that it says is available at no cost — a move timed to land just ahead of the...
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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...
Google Cloud’s decision to waive multicloud data-transfer charges in the EU and UK — through a new “Data Transfer Essentials” option — has shifted a regulatory tug‑of‑war into a full commercial play, and it matters for every IT team wrestling with vendor lock‑in, migration economics, and...
In a notable excursion that underscores the evolving landscape of cloud computing regulations, representatives from the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers of Europe (CISPE) have journeyed to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond. This summit, which took place earlier this week, was a crucial...