The European Commission, which enforces competition for the 27 countries in the European Union, will monitor the settlement, according to Reuters. “We are committed to the European Cloud Community and their success.”ĬRN has reached out to OVHcloud and CISPE for comment. “We are grateful for the productive conversations that led us there and appreciate the feedback that we have received since,” the spokesperson said. In a statement to CRN, a Microsoft spokesperson said that “in October 2022, we introduced changes to our licensing practices that address the feedback that we heard from European cloud providers.”
The organizations complained to the European Commission that Microsoft’s licensing practices were not fair.Ī separate complaint by Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) – a trade group that includes chief Microsoft cloud rival Amazon Web Services (AWS) – is ongoing, according to Bloomberg. Microsoft will settle with OVHcloud of France, Aruba of Italy and the Danish Cloud Community, according to Bloomberg. Multiple media outlets have reported that Microsoft will settle with a group of overseas cloud providers to ease cloud computing antitrust concerns in Europe – all while inquiries into cloud computing competition start to heat up in the United States.
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