European Union: European Commission announced market investigation assessing effectiveness of Digital Markets Act for addressing practices limiting competitiveness and fairness in cloud computing sector

On 18 November 2025, the European Commission announced a market investigation assessing the effectiveness of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for addressing practices limiting competitiveness and fairness in the cloud computing sector. Article 19 of the DMA gives the Commission the power to conduct market investigations into new services and practices to determine whether they should be added to the list of core platform services, unfair practices, or practices limiting the contestability of core platform services. As part of its market investigation, the Commission will assess whether current DMA obligations effectively address unfair practices or practices limiting competitiveness in the cloud sector, including, for example, obstacles to interoperability, limited or conditioned access to data, tying and bundling services, and imbalanced contractual terms. The market investigation will result in a final report within 18 months which may propose updates to DMA obligations by delegated act.