CMA: cloud services market investigation antitrust case
Regulator
Competition and Markets Authority
acted against
The market investigation looked at egress fees, interoperability and Microsoft's software licensing practices in cloud computing.
The case
- Regulator
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Opened
- Oct 5, 2023 case opened Source
- Decided
- Jul 31, 2025
- Status
- ClosedCMA recommended strategic market status investigations into AWS and Microsoft.
- Outcome
- The CMA found competition in UK cloud services is not working well and recommended SMS investigations of AWS and Microsoft.