EU Commission considers designating AWS and Microsoft Azure as DMA gatekeepers, testing regulatory boundaries on cloud computing

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The European Commission has reached a preliminary view that Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), marking the first time cloud computing would fall under the DMA's regulatory scope. This would also be the first use of Article 3(8), a provision allowing the Commission to designate firms that don't meet standard quantitative thresholds. The article critically examines whether the DMA's framework, designed for consumer-facing digital platforms like app stores and social networks, can be sensibly applied to the fundamentally different infrastructure of cloud computing services.

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