Trai claims complete jurisdiction to regulate cloud services

New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has claimed complete jurisdiction to regulate cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, even as the industry contended that it is already regulated by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

“CSPs are service providers under the Trai Act and, therefore, we are dealing with this issue,” Trai chairman RS Sharma said on Friday.

He was speaking at an open house discussion on a Trai consultation paper seeking suggestions for a framework to set up an industry body to regulate cloud service providers (CSPs) like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, VMware and CtrlS.