The competition watchdog could be set for a showdown with Amazon and Microsoft after an independent inquiry group said the regulator should probe the two firms’ dominance in the cloud services market.

On Wednesday, the CMA said Microsoft and Inflection’s partnership does qualify as a merger that falls within the watchdog’s ...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a formal investigation into Microsoft's recruitment of staff from AI startup Inflection to determine if this constitutes a de facto merger ...

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reviewing the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, determining the possibility of a merger that could reshape the AI landscape. The ...

AWS responded in a statement to Computer Weekly by describing the CMA’s proposed targeted interventions as “unwarranted”. Microsoft hit back by similarly stating the CMA was wrong for ...

As well as this, the CMA also has powers to intervene and roll out changes to how the likes of AWS and Microsoft behave to correct any anti-competitive behaviours its work brings to light.

In its investigation, the CMA’s independent inquiry group found four primary concerns: Microsoft and AWS each have a share of up to 40% of U.K. customer spend on cloud services, dominating the ...

That would be the UK’s CMA, where Microsoft is trying to hammer out a new compromise that averts the cloud-based concerns that the CMA had, which caused it to block the deal there. As such ...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally found that competition across cloud services was hindered for businesses and organisations due to the dominance of Amazon Web Services ...

The inquiry group provisionally recommends that the CMA use its powers under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA) to consider whether to designate the two largest providers, ...

A independent group said the CMA should probe Amazon and Microsoft's dominance in the cloud services market. The competition watchdog could be set for a showdown with Amazon and Microsoft after an ...