Harmonic’s incursion of the Telefónica Movistar+ account is another warning shot to AWS Elemental, after the US video heavyweight recently described the cloud computing behemoth as a “frenemy”. Sound familiar? That’s because we ran a similar headline and opening gambit almost exactly a year ago, when Ateme was selected by Telefónica Spain to deploy its Titan platform for distribution of live DTH and OTT video services for Movistar+, in a project which included transitioning to a virtual head-end. In the end, we concluded that Ateme’s arrival in Spain, after working Telefónica’s other territories for a number of years, was not a blot on the AWS Elemental footprint, because the importance of being the incumbent software transcoding supplier for a converged…