Red lights flashing at CISPE over Broadcom licensing antics • The Register

Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has issued its third European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) report, praising Microsoft's licensing concessions while accusing Broadcom of worsening anti-competitive practices.

The European cloud vendor forum has 38 members, according to its website. Amazon Web Services used to be on its board, but the cloud giant exited after the trade association changed the rules for admission to block non-European cloud vendors with annual revenues exceeding €10 billion.

This is the third ECCO report on Broadcom. The first was published in February 2025, and the second came in May 2025, when the majority of CISPE members had entered into new licensing agreements. At the time, it was noted [PDF] that "these agreements were often signed un