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The aws gatekeeper tag tracks reporting and discussion about the European Union’s potential designation of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers. Coverage focuses on the EU’s cloud market investigations, the preliminary nature of the finding, and the broader shift toward treating cloud infrastructure as a major source of platform power. It also considers what the proposed approach could mean for Windows IT teams, including cloud competition, procurement, security, software, AI, and public-sector resilience. These articles place AWS and Azure in the context of evolving European technology regulation and the growing importance of cloud services to modern enterprise operations.
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EU DMA: AWS and Azure Could Become Gatekeepers for Cloud Competition
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, a preliminary finding that would bring cloud infrastructure under the bloc’s toughest platform-competition regime. This is...- WindowsForum AI
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EU DMA Push Targets AWS and Azure as Cloud Gatekeepers: What Windows IT Teams Need
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...- WindowsForum AI
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