UK raises cloud competition concerns, names Microsoft and Amazon as dominant players

CNBC January 28, 2025
Ryan Browne

Key Points

– A U.K Competition and Markets Authority inquiry group on Tuesday provisionally recommended that the regulator should consider investigating Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure cloud unit under new digital markets legislation.

– The CMA said that, currently, businesses face a limited choice of providers when it comes to cloud services.

– The regulator called AWS and Microsoft “the two large providers of cloud services, each with a share of up to 40% of UK customer spend on cloud services.”

LONDON — Britain’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday raised concerns over competition in the multi-billion-pound cloud computing market and singled out Microsoft and Amazon as the dominant players.

An independent Competition and Markets Authority inquiry group provisionally recommended...

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