The Commerce Clause of the US Constitution directly applies. The federal government has the power and responsibility to make commerce regular; as in normal. That was the meaning of word "regulation" when our founders wrote the constitution.
Given that the internet is used for commerce between the several states, government should ensure that anyone or any business may gain access to the internet. Specifically, no one can be denied access to internet service to their data center, no matter how large or small. This include physical and higher level tiers of the internet including things like DNS services. There should be a clear demarcation of regulation between internet pipes and fundamental internet services and higher level services, such as data centers, and cloud hosting services. Higher level services should not be regulated.
It should be anyone's choice to use or not use cloud services, such as AWS. I think you will see an exodus of businesses from AWS to private data centers or other providers. This will hurt Amazon's business.
Regulation should not be used to prop up Amazon and make them live by arbitrary and ineffective regulations created by government. More importantly, regulations would create barriers of entry into those markets for smaller businesses. Regulations have costs that always hurt small businesses. Big businesses often ignore regulations and decide to pay fines instead, thus making the regulations moot for them, but costly for small businesses.
We just need to ensure that anyone or any business can get an internet pipe to their computers/servers and internet traffic is not blocked or throttled to those people. The market will take care of the rest.
That would be one step to correct things. The next would be to look at anti-trust laws and break up the big tech olilgopy. That needs to be done one step at a time, tackling the largest companies that display near monopolistic behaviors.
To summarize, the federal government needs to take measures to ensure competition. That should be as near to pure competition (economics definition) as possible.
It should be anyone’s choice to use or not use cloud services, such as AWS. I think you will see an exodus of businesses from AWS to private data centers or other providers. This will hurt Amazon’s business.
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Sure simple web hosting is easy. Companies that depend on the rest of Amazon Web Services will have a large tech debt to develop these other services from scratch. It’s hard enough to go from say AWS to GCP. For example, I know one decent-sized organization that took 2 years, and the services are more-or-less similar. Now what’s the time to spin up your own services?
Yes thank you