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.

Brit monopoly plod files report on health of local sector, says technical barriers and Redmond's licensing practices hurting ...

The CMA is among regulators which have faced demands from the Government to help its ambitions to accelerate economic growth.

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.

UK Competition and Markets Authority says Microsoft and AWS have an unfair dominance over the country's cloud market.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) provisional ...

Competition plays a vital role in supporting economic growth and so the CMA rightly believes that it can support growth ...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally concluded that competition in the £9 billion cloud services sector is not functioning effectively, potentially leading ...

If the companies are found to have ‘strategic market status’ then they could face restrictions on egress fees and software ...

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 ...