YOU ARE
Alphabet Google Cloud (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) has accused Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) of anti-competitive cloud computing practices and criticized upcoming agreements with several European cloud providers, claiming they do not address broader concerns about their license terms, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Google Cloud vice president Amit Zavery told Reuters the company raised the issue with antitrust agencies and urged European Union antitrust regulators to take a closer look at its early public comments on Microsoft and its European deals.
Microsoft responded by citing a blog post from May of last year in which its president, Brad Smith, stated that the company “has a healthy number two position in cloud services, with just over 20% market share of cloud services.” global revenue from cloud services.
“We are committed to the success of the European Cloud Community,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday.
Due to the dominance of a few players and their increasingly critical role as more and more companies move their services to the cloud, the sector has recently come under increased regulatory scrutiny, including in the US and UK.
A person with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters this week that Microsoft offered to change its cloud computing practices in exchange for some smaller rivals dropping their antitrust complaints.
However, Microsoft still faces another EU antitrust complaint from CISPE, which includes Amazon as a member.
