00:00This is not about European players versus US players.
00:04The European Commission announced on Thursday that Microsoft and Amazon's cloud platforms should be subjected to a strict regulatory regime
00:11on a preliminary basis, marking an aggressive push by Brussels to make the market fair and contestable.
00:18The landmark decision means Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, which collectively account for roughly 60% of the European
00:25market, should be subject to the stringent obligations of the Digital Markets Act.
00:29Notably absent from the preliminary scrutiny is Google Cloud, prompting a Microsoft spokesperson to warn that ignoring Google's growing power
00:38and Gemini risks tilting the digital market in a harmful way.
00:42The strategic rulebook is explicitly designed to stop global tech giants from trapping institutional clients by making it either very
00:50expensive or technically impossible to switch to a regional competitor.
00:55While the regulation risks drawing sharp backlash from the Trump administration over the treatment of successful American firms, Brussels insists
01:04the move is not about fueling transatlantic competition.
01:08The antitrust move lands just as the Commission advances separate rules to reduce its dependency on foreign technology by reserving
01:16sensitive public contracts for domestic alternatives.
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