gatekeeper designation

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...

Google has quietly withdrawn its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices in the European Union, a move that follows the European Commission’s decision to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’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Alphabet’s Google has withdrawn its formal EU antitrust complaint alleging that Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices locked customers into Microsoft Azure, a move timed immediately after the European Commission launched a broad market investigation into the cloud sector under the Digital...

Google’s abrupt withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing is the latest twist in a transatlantic tussle over the future of cloud competition — and it comes as the European Commission has opened formal market investigations to determine whether Microsoft Azure...

Google has quietly withdrawn the antitrust complaint it lodged in 2024 against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices, a tactical pivot that hands the agenda to Brussels as the European Commission proceeds with high‑stakes market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into whether...

Google’s decision to formally withdraw the antitrust complaint it lodged against Microsoft last year is a tactical retreat that hands the baton to Brussels — but it does not close the dispute over how Microsoft prices and licenses Windows Server, SQL Server and related workloads for use on rival...

The European Commission has launched a trio of market investigations that could push Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure under the European Union’s strictest digital competition rules, testing whether the hyperscale cloud platforms functionally operate as “gatekeepers” and whether the...

Microsoft’s AI triumphs in Chicago this week are colliding with a new and potentially disruptive regulatory reality in Brussels: the European Commission has opened formal market investigations into cloud computing services, focused squarely on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, to...

The European Commission has opened three coordinated market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), putting Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely into Brussels’ regulatory crosshairs and testing whether the DMA — originally framed for consumer-facing platforms — can be...

Brussels has opened formal market investigations that put Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely in the regulatory crosshairs, probing whether the two hyperscalers should face tougher, gatekeeper-style rules under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act — a move that could reshape...

The European Commission has opened a high‑stakes set of market investigations that could bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure within the EU’s toughest digital rulebook — the Digital Markets Act (DMA) — and, in doing so, reshape how hyperscale cloud platforms operate across Europe...

The European Commission has opened formal market scrutiny into whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be treated as regulated “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), raising the prospect that the two dominant hyperscalers could face new interoperability...

The European Commission has formally opened a set of market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), testing whether the world’s two largest cloud platforms should be treated as regulated “gatekeepers” and whether the DMA’s toolbox...

The diginomica network’s latest research lands a clear, uncomfortable verdict for enterprise technology teams: artificial intelligence is not primarily a technical deployment problem — it is a change management problem. Within an invitation‑only community of CIOs and CTOs, the report finds...

The European Commission’s decision to open three separate market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) marks a decisive escalation in Brussels’ effort to bring the cloud infrastructure layer within the EU’s toughest ex‑ante digital...

The European Commission has opened three formal market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), signaling that Brussels is prepared to consider applying the DMA’s toughest obligations to large cloud providers — a move that could...

In a decisive escalation of EU tech regulation, the European Commission has opened market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), seeking to determine whether their cloud offerings function as “gatekeeper” services and whether the...