Published on
25/06/2026 - 15:41 GMT+2
The European Commission said on Thursday that Microsoft and Amazon's cloud services should fall under a strict regulatory regime, at least on a preliminary basis, as Brussels tries to make the cloud market fair and contestable while promoting European providers.
The decision means Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services – the two largest cloud service providers, accounting for roughly 60 percent of the European market – should be subject to the obligations and prohibitions of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the law designed to curb anti-competitive practices by dominant companies.
Notably absent from the Commission's scrutiny is the sector's third major player, Google Cloud, which is not yet considered to hold the level of market dominance needed to be captured under DMA rules.
