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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens, soft media users 1520111, Alejandro86 for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, October 5 (Xinhua)-- British CMA regulators are currently investigating a series of cloud service providers, including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, Reuters reported.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is about to approve Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, but it is said that "attention will soon be turned to Microsoft's Azure cloud products and Amazon AWS cloud computing services".

▲ Tuyuan Reuters reported that this was a survey of cloud providers in the UK market, after telecommunications regulator Ofcom claimed that cloud service providers in the UK market had monopoly problems and that "some cloud service providers adopted various mechanisms to make it more difficult for customers to switch and switch to services provided by other cloud providers."

Ofcom believes that some cloud service providers' customers have to pay to move data out of the cloud, and some cloud service providers also offer discounts to force customers to become dependent, so the agency asked CMA to investigate.

According to CTOnews.com, Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Cloud Services won 70-80 per cent of the UK market in 2022.

However, Reuters said CMA's market research would take 18 months to complete, with a legal deadline of April 4, 2025. UK regulators will outline the "damage theory" and "any potential remedies that may address the situation". UK regulators also have the right to "require the companies involved to sell some of their businesses to prevent monopolies."

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