European regulators have opened cloud-focused competition investigations into Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services while advancing a Cloud and AI Development Act that would steer Europe’s most sensitive public-sector workloads toward EU-controlled providers. The move is not merely another...
On November 18, 2025, the European Commission opened three Digital Markets Act market investigations into cloud computing, including probes into whether Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as gatekeepers despite missing the DMA’s automatic thresholds. That is the dry...