cloud regulation

Japan’s competition watchdog has opened a formal probe of Microsoft’s cloud business, focusing on whether commercial and technical conditions tied to Microsoft 365, Windows Server and other key software steer customers toward Azure and disadvantage rival cloud platforms — and the agency has...

Microsoft's Japanese arm says it is “fully cooperating” with the Japan Fair Trade Commission after investigators executed an on‑site inspection of Microsoft Japan’s Tokyo offices as part of a probe into whether the company’s cloud‑related licensing and commercial practices steered customers...

Japan’s antitrust watchdog carried out an on-site inspection of Microsoft Japan’s Tokyo offices on February 25, 2026, intensifying an already global regulatory focus on how dominant cloud platforms use licensing, technical controls and commercial messaging to influence customers’ cloud choices...

Japan’s competition enforcers have executed an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese offices after local media and international reporting said the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is investigating whether Microsoft improperly limited customers’ ability to run Microsoft software on rival...

Antitrust enforcers across the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union have zeroed in on the commercial plumbing of the internet — the hyperscale cloud providers — to ask a blunt question: are today’s dominant cloud contracts and pricing practices deliberately sticky, and are...

The European Commission has published the formal decisions explaining why it has opened market investigations to determine whether Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) should be regulated as gatekeeper cloud services under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), setting in motion a...

Brussels has published formal market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, a move that opens a 12‑month fact‑finding window into whether the two hyperscalers function as regulated “gatekeepers” for cloud computing services —...

Google’s quiet decision to withdraw its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft has converted a high‑profile bilateral regulatory fight into a broader institutional test of how Europe will police the cloud era — and it shifts the most consequential questions about vendor lock‑in, cloud...

Google has quietly withdrawn its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices in the European Union, a move that follows the European Commission’s decision to open a broader market investigation into cloud computing under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act framework and...

Google Cloud has formally withdrawn the antitrust complaint it lodged with the European Commission in September 2024 over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices, a tactical retreat that coincides with the Commission’s own decision to open market investigations into cloud computing services —...

Google’s formal withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft is the most visible sign yet that the cloud competition fight has moved from bilateral legal wrangling to a Brussels‑led, regulatory test of the entire hyperscaler market — a shift triggered by the European Commission’s...

Alphabet’s Google has quietly withdrawn its formal complaint against Microsoft over Azure cloud practices in the European Union, a strategic retreat that follows the European Commission’s decision to open a broader market inquiry into cloud computing under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This...

Google’s decision to withdraw its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices has reframed what looked like a private legal confrontation into a full‑blown, public policy contest over how Europe will regulate cloud infrastructure in the AI era — a shift that hands the debate to...

Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is a swift, strategic pivot that hands the argument over to Brussels’ newly launched Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations — a move that reshapes the fight over cloud portability, vendor...

Google’s cloud antitrust complaint against Microsoft has been quietly folded into a much larger regulatory test of the industry: the company has formally withdrawn its EU complaint after Brussels opened a trio of Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations into cloud computing services...

Google’s decision to withdraw its 2024 antitrust complaint against Microsoft marks a tactical pivot in a broader contest over cloud market rules and regulatory remedies after the European Commission launched a separate, wider Digital Markets Act (DMA)–style investigation into cloud computing...

Google has quietly withdrawn its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union, a tactical pivot that hands the dispute over cloud competition to Brussels’ broader Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations and reframes the fight from private litigation to public...

Google has formally withdrawn its formal EU antitrust complaint against a rival’s cloud licensing practices — a tactical retreat that arrives just days after the European Commission opened three coordinated market investigations into the cloud sector under the Digital Markets Act (DMA)...

Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices on the same week the European Commission opened a wide-ranging probe into the cloud market crystallizes a new phase in the hyperscaler rivalry — one driven more by regulatory...

Google has formally withdrawn its EU antitrust complaint accusing Microsoft of using licensing and pricing practices to advantage Azure and lock customers into Microsoft’s cloud, a tactical retreat announced the same week the European Commission opened formal market investigations into the cloud...