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On June 25, 2026, the European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it preliminarily believes Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers in the European Union. That is not a final ruling, but it is a major escalation. Brussels is no longer...

On June 25, 2026, the European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that AWS and Azure should be treated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers in the European Union, a preliminary finding that would pull the two dominant cloud platforms into Brussels’ toughest digital competition regime. The move...

On June 25, 2026, the European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that its preliminary view is that AWS and Azure should be designated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers for cloud computing services in the European Union. The finding is not yet a final order, but it is the clearest signal so...

On June 25, 2026, the European Commission said Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, a preliminary finding that would pull the EU’s two largest cloud platforms into Brussels’ toughest digital competition regime. The move is not...

European Union regulators said on June 25, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers after a seven-month investigation in Brussels found the two cloud platforms occupy entrenched positions in Europe’s cloud market. The finding is...

The European Commission said on June 25, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers in the European Union, after a seven-month investigation found their cloud services appear to hold entrenched market power. That is not a final...

The European Commission said on June 25, 2026, in Brussels that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers, a preliminary finding that could bring the two dominant cloud platforms under stricter EU competition obligations. The move is not a...

The European Commission said on June 25, 2026, that it has reached a preliminary view that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as cloud “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act in the European Union. That does not yet make AWS and Azure fully regulated DMA...

The European Commission said on June 25, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers in Europe, a preliminary finding that could bring the two dominant cloud platforms under stricter competition obligations later this year. The move is...

The European Union is moving toward treating Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act “gatekeepers” after opening cloud market investigations in Brussels on November 18, 2025, with stakeholder roundtables scheduled for July 1, 2026. The decision is not merely another...

The European Commission is expected as early as this week to issue preliminary findings that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure qualify as cloud “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, extending Europe’s platform competition regime from consumer apps into enterprise infrastructure. The...

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...