Amazon, Microsoft Must Face Tougher UK Antitrust Probe, CMA Says

Microsoft Corp.and an Amazon Web Services Inc.’s dominance in the cloud services market must face an antitrust investigation under the UK’s new rules for digital markets, the country’s watchdog said after a 21 month long investigation.

The Competition and Markets Authority said that concerns over market dominance and lack of consumer choice at Microsoft and AWS should be investigated under its strategic market status rules.

With the watchdog’s digital market unit, the CMA can launch a probe to designate a company as having strategic market status and can eventually impose conduct requirements on firms. The watchdog can ...