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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 designated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers for cloud computing services in the European Union. The finding is not a final decision, but it is a...

On June 25, 2026, the European Commission said it had preliminarily concluded that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as gatekeepers under the EU’s Digital Markets Act, even though their cloud services do not meet the law’s usual quantitative thresholds. The move is not...

The European Commission said on June 25, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers in the EU, opening the door to stricter competition obligations for the bloc’s two dominant cloud platforms. The move is preliminary, not final, but it...

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...

On June 25, 2026, the European Commission said it had reached a preliminary view that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as cloud “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, despite neither service meeting the DMA’s usual quantitative thresholds. The decision is not...

On June 25, 2026, the European Commission said Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should preliminarily be treated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers in the European Union, after a cloud-market investigation opened in November 2025. That finding is not yet a final designation, but it is a...

European Union antitrust officials said on June 25, 2026, in Brussels that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as Digital Markets Act “gatekeepers,” a preliminary finding that would bring the world’s two largest cloud platforms under Europe’s toughest Big Tech conduct...

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, despite both cloud platforms falling below the DMA’s normal numerical designation...

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 Commission said on June 25, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should preliminarily be treated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers in the European Union, opening the door to stricter cloud competition duties after investigations launched in November 2025. This is not...

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers in Europe, EU antitrust regulators said on June 25, 2026, after a seven-month investigation into whether the two cloud platforms function as essential gateways for digital business. The finding is still...

Brussels said on June 25, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as gatekeepers under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, a preliminary finding that would pull the world’s two largest cloud platforms into the bloc’s toughest digital competition regime. The...

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...

The European Commission is reportedly preparing preliminary findings as soon as the week of June 22, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure likely qualify as cloud “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, setting up possible new EU restrictions by year’s end. This is not just...

Microsoft’s AI boom is forcing the company to lean on outside cloud capacity in June 2026, while European regulators are examining whether Azure should face Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules and investors are pressing securities claims over Copilot and Azure disclosures. The awkward lesson is...

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...

Microsoft is reportedly testing Windows 11 changes in June 2026 that would let users disable Bing-powered web results inside Windows Search, most likely as part of a broader European Digital Markets Act compliance push around defaults, browsers, search providers, and bundled Microsoft services...