Amazon Defeats Rival Over Cloud-Computing Monopolization Claims

Amazon Web Services escaped claims for now alleging it unlawfully dominated the cloud-computing market after a federal judge found its rival failed to plead a specific intent to monopolize.

Judge Tana Lin of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in a Monday opinion dismissed Subspace Omega LLC’s antitrust claims with leave to amend, ruling the plaintiff hadn’t sufficiently alleged there was a “dangerous probability” that AWS would achieve monopoly power in the cloud-computing market.

Now-defunct tech firm Subspace filed its lawsuit in 2023 against AWS, the cloud-computing and data-hosting unit of online giant Amazon.com Inc.

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