aws vs azure

On 18 November 2025, the European Commission opened three Digital Markets Act investigations into cloud computing, including two probes into whether Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as gatekeepers in the European Union. The move is not merely another Brussels skirmish...

Azure vs. AWS vs. GCP vs. Oracle vs. IBM is no longer just a market-share argument. Flexera’s 2026 State of the Cloud report, as broken down by CRN, shows a clear spending hierarchy in which AWS and Microsoft Azure still dominate the high end of cloud budgets, while Google Cloud tends to cluster...

Microsoft and Amazon are entering 2026 with a cloud advantage that goes beyond raw infrastructure. The real story is not just who has the biggest data center footprint, but who controls the buying path, the partner ecosystem, and the enterprise workflows that turn cloud capacity into recurring...

Microsoft’s reported threat to sue OpenAI over the Amazon Web Services deal is not just another ugly corporate spat. It is the clearest sign yet that the partnership that helped ignite the generative AI boom has moved from strategic alignment to hard-nosed containment. What once looked like a...