[zinekeller]

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0385...

> Switching charges should therefore be abolished after three years from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. Providers of data processing services should be able to impose reduced switching charges up to that date.

> In order to foster competition, the gradual withdrawal of the charges associated with switching between different providers of data processing services should specifically include data egress charges imposed by a provider of data processing services on a customer.

> Standard service fees for the provision of the data processing services themselves are not switching charges. Those standard service fees are not subject to withdrawal and remain applicable until the contract for the provision of the relevant services ceases to apply. This Regulation allows the customer to request the provision of additional services that go beyond the provider’s switching obligations under this Regulation. Those additional services, can be performed and charged for by the provider when they are performed at the customer’s request and the customer agrees to the price of those services in advance.

In other words, hardware, compute and storage can still be charged, but bandwidth (beyond the provision of the hardware itself) shall not be charged.

[dilyevsky]

Thanks! That’s wild, my guess is cloud providers will substantially hike up compute cost and/or lower bandwidth cap per core as a result of this