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AWS, Azure probes show political imperative to tackle ‘backbone’ of EU digital markets

By Lewis Crofts ( November 18, 2025, 17:21 GMT | Comment) -- Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services faced the near-inevitable news today that the EU’s tough gatekeeper rulebook was coming for their cloud businesses, thus delivering on political calls that the crucial infrastructure doesn’t escape regulation. Google dodged the probe, showing how market dynamics and not just market shares can have consequences. Changes to the Digital Markets Act itself are also on the cards.It was never meant to be this way, some tech companies may think. The EU’s Digital Markets Act was born of a desire to open up the kinds of internet platforms that have consumers on one side and businesses on the other — think traders, advertisers or app developers....

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