TECH - Amazon's AWS Scraps Exit Fees Freeing Data Transfers to Rival Cloud Services | Benzinga
Amazon.com Inc’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has decided to eliminate the charges for customers wishing to migrate their data to competing services.
AWS Vice President Robert Kennedy announced this change in a blog post, stating that from now on, global customers can transfer their data out to the internet for free if they opt to switch to a different IT provider. This policy revision by AWS follows a similar announcement by Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google and comes amid growing regulatory scrutiny over cloud services, Bloomberg reports.
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