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Ofcom takes aim at cloud services monopoly

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Carmen Cracknell

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Regulator recommends market investigation over concerns at exercise of dominant position by AWS and Microsoft.

An interim report by the UK’s Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, has identified a monopoly in cloud services, proposing further investigation into the matter by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

The report identified a strong dominance of the market by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft. The

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