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UK’s CMA says AWS and Microsoft dominate cloud services and harm competition

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Microsoft’s conduct has been called ‘harmful for competition’ by the regulator. Photo: Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images

Thomas Hyrkiel, Hameed Shuja

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The regulator singles out Microsoft’s licensing practices as particularly harmful and creating barriers to entry.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published provisional findings of its probe which was aimed at assessing competition in the UK’s cloud services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have been singled out for holding a market hegemony in the UK’s cloud services, leaving little room for others

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