United Kingdom: Competition and Markets Authority published commitments by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft to reduce egress fees and improve interoperability in UK cloud markets

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Competition and Markets Authority published commitments by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft to reduce egress fees and improve interoperability in UK cloud markets

On 31 March 2026, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published voluntary commitments by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft to reduce egress fees and improve interoperability in UK cloud markets, following the CMA's 2025 market investig…

Scope

Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Unilateral conduct regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
infrastructure provider: cloud computing, storage and databases
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
competition authority

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2023-10-05
under deliberation

On 5 October 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a market investigation into…

2023-10-17
in consultation

On 17 October 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened a consultation on its issues…

2023-11-09
processing consultation

On 9 November 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) closed the consultation on its issu…

2025-01-28
in consultation

On 28 January 2025, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a report with the pr…

2025-02-18
processing consultation

On 18 February 2025, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) closes its consultation on th…

2025-07-31
in force

On 31 July 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued its final decision in the marke…

2026-03-31
in force

On 31 March 2026, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published voluntary commitments by Am…