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# Commission opens DMA gatekeeper probes into AWS and Microsoft Azure
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-11-18-eu-dma-cloud-gatekeeper-investigation/
- Published: 2025-11-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-11T16:01:28.000Z
- Description: The Commission opened three Digital Markets Act probes into whether Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure must be designated cloud gatekeepers. It aims to conclude within twelve months, with a wider cloud rules report due in eighteen.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified, #ai-drafted

Verified AI-drafted [European Commission press release, 18 November 2025](https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/commission-launches-market-investigations-cloud-computing-services-under-digital-markets-act-2025-11-18%5Fen?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that either company will actually be designated a gatekeeper.

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