Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is "using its strength" in the software market to make it harder for Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Cloud to compete for cloud customers in the U.

UK regulator files report on health of local sector, says technical barriers and Redmond's licensing practices hurting smaller rivals + customers

Microsoft and Amazon Web Services could face an investigation by U.K. regulators after an independent enquiry found that competition isn’t working in the cloud services market.The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday that the enquiry provisionally found that the lack of competition could result in higher costs,

Many Amazon cloud clients want to test and evaluate DeepSeek's AI capabilities, according to an internal AWS document obtained by BI.

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority’s independent inquiry group has published provisional findings following an in-depth assessment

The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) independent inquiry group has published provisional findings following an in-depth assessment into cloud service

The CMA has published the provisional findings from its long-running investigation into the UK cloud infrastructure services market, and is considering taking targeted action against AWS and Microsoft out of concern about the competitive impact their hold on the sector is having.

DoiT acquires cloud software startup LiveDiagrams to boost AWS, Google Cloud and FinOps customer innovation in visualization and analysis.

Google plans to invest another $1 billion into Anthropic. The tech giant previously pumped $2bn into the generative AI business, along with providing cloud computing services.

The cash infusion comes on top of the $2 billion that Google has already provided to the artificial intelligence developer. Separately, Anthropic is said to be raising $2 billion from a group of institutional investors led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The latter deal is expected to value the company at $60 billion.

Amazon has reported a very high operating margin in AWS for the last three quarters, which has helped boost the overall operating income and EPS. Read more here.

Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to demand from customers already using its popular S3 object storage.