uk cloud regulation

  1. UK CMA’s Hybrid Cloud Plan: Commitments for AWS and Microsoft Probe for Software

    The United Kingdom’s cloud competition debate has entered a distinctly hybrid phase: the regulator is trying to soften some of the market’s sharpest switching frictions while still opening a fresh antitrust-style probe into Microsoft’s wider software ecosystem. On March 31, 2026, the Competition...
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  2. UK CMA SMS Probe Targets Microsoft Software Licensing Lock-In to Azure

    Microsoft’s cloud business is heading into another regulatory test in the UK, and this one is more surgical than the CMA’s broad cloud market investigation that closed in July 2025. The watchdog has now moved toward a separate strategic market status probe focused on Microsoft’s business...
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