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Jun, 2026 : EU Takes Aim At AWS And Azure Cloud Dominance
📅 - Brussels has moved to bring Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure under the EU's Digital Markets Act, a step that would drag cloud infrastructure into the bloc's toughest competition regime. The preliminary finding targets the market power behind enterprise compute, AI tooling, and public-sector procurement - and risks another fight with Washington over American technology dominance.
For years, Europe's digital competition machinery has been aimed mostly at the visible consumer internet. Search. App stores. Social platforms. Messaging. Cloud was always there, underneath everything, but harder to treat as a gatekeeping layer because the customers are sophisticated, the contracts are [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
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📅 - Brussels has moved to bring Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure under the EU's Digital Markets Act, a step that would drag cloud infrastructure into the bloc's toughest competition regime. The preliminary finding targets the market power behind enterprise compute, AI tooling, and public-sector procurement - and risks another fight with Washington over American technology dominance.
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