London-British Anti-Torais Watch Dogs caused concerns about the competition in the billions of pound cloud computing markets on Tuesday, and picked it out Microsoft and Amazon As the main player.

The independent competition and the marketing bureau's investigation team temporarily suggested that regulatory agencies in the new digital market, competition and consumer (DMCC) bill consider investigating Amazon Network Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Cloud units.

CMA stated in a statement that it is estimated that the cloud service market was worth 9 billion pounds ($ 11.8 billion) in 2023, and this number increased by 30 % year -on -year. CMA pointed out that at present, companies are facing limited providers in cloud services.

The regulatory agency is called AWS and Microsoft, "two large providers of cloud services, each provider accounts for 40 % of Britain's cloud services."

It is worth noting that it has added Google It is the third largest provider "a much smaller share."

It is expected that CMA should be considered to investigate the cloud units of AWS and Microsoft to determine whether it should be specified as a "strategic market condition" (SMS).

This will enable them to be subject to new restrictions on the regulatory agencies that can be applied under DMCC to prevent anti -competitive behavior.

Rima Alaily, deputy lawyer of Microsoft Company and Deputy Lawyer Group of Competition Group, said through emails that the draft report of the CMA query team "focuses on paving the future of the British AI -driven future."

"The cloud computing market has never been so active and competitive, attracting billions of dollars of investment, new participants and fast innovation. What is better for British companies and governments?" Alaily added.

AWS spokesman said that the CMA's proposed intervention measures were "not guaranteed" and added: "Evidence shows that the IT service industry has high competitiveness."

AWS spokesman added: "Cloud computing reduces the on -demand service of British companies and your paid pricing, expand product selection, and increase the cost of competition and innovation."

The Amazon branch urged the CMA to "carefully consider how regulatory intervention in other fields will kill innovation and ultimately damage British customers."

Chris Lindsay, vice president of Google Emea's customer engineering vice president, said the company will "continue to interact with the CMA constructive to support the openness, innovation and growth of the British cloud market."

Fladgate's competitive partner Alex Haffner said that the temporary decision of the CMA query team is to investigate whether AWS and Microsoft have a strategic market position under DMCC, which may lead to review extend.

However, he added: "Assuming that such SMS is found, CMA will think that it will have more arsenal in order to use various aspects to keep all parties check and meet the way of handling large -scale technologies more commonly. "

In the past, CMA said that several elements in the cloud market may cause competitive problems, from the so -called "export" cost from one cloud to another to software permit.

The cloud infrastructure service is a market led by American technology giants Amazon and Microsoft. Amazon is the largest player and provides cloud services through its Amazon Web Services (AWS) department. Microsoft is the second largest, selling cloud products under its Microsoft Azure unit.

The key problem of CMA's focus is that MicroSoft's license practice deployed in its cloud business.

The smaller suppliers in the industry claim that Microsoft collects more fees from customers to run its Windows Server software on competitive cloud services, not Mirosoft's own Azure products. They believe that this will have a "lock" effect, making it difficult for the company to leave Azure for other cloud services.

The CMA's independent inquiry said in the preliminary decision proposed on Tuesday that the conclusion that Microsoft was Microsoft's competitors charged by competitors including Windows Server (including Windows Server), which could be higher than its retail price charged to its own customers. "" ".

The inquiry team pointed out: "We have temporarily discovered that Microsoft has the ability and motivation to use related Microsoft software products to cancel AWS and Google.

Google's Lindsay said the temporary discovery of the Internet giant "encouraged" the Internet giant, and increased Microsoft's "restrictions on permission to endanger British cloud customers, threatened economic growth and kill innovation."

Last month, Microsoft was litigant, accusing him of unfairly charging customers of Windows Server on the cloud of Windows Server on the client of its competitors.

Microsoft had previously reached an agreement with a number of EU cloud providers last year to avoid potential investigations on so -called unfair activities to solve their concerns that can practice competition.