European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

Bender 50 points 27 comments June 25, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)

dmitrygr

And when everyone is a gatekeeper … no one is

twoodfin

Who’s on each side of the gate?

iso1631

10% of Microsoft's turnover is $28b, 10% of amazon is $71b The goal here is to make sure these companies obey the law though, which big tech companies seem to think is optional.

aerzen

Seems like good news - market share of AWS and Azure in EU is huge, so I naturally support efforts to kurb power of such duopoly. But what would be practical effects of DMA on AWS? Who is the customer, who is the vendor?

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