The European Commission wants to investigate whether Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud fall under the Digital Markets Act. After large-scale cloud outages, concerns are growing about the dominance of three major players in the cloud market.
This is according to Bloomberg, based on sources. The investigation follows several major outages in the cloud sector. Last month, an Amazon services outage affected hundreds of companies. Apple, McDonald’s, Epic Games, and other multinationals experienced problems for up to 15 hours. In October, an Azure outage even prevented Alaska Airlines passengers from checking in and the Scottish Parliament from voting. Google Cloud went down in June, causing Spotify and Discord to fail.
Investigation into market power
The European Commission is preparing an investigation into the market power of the three major cloud providers. Until now, they have escaped scrutiny because a large part of their…