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The European Commission, the EU's digital regulator, said it will investigate whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure should come under the scope of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Despite being the third largest, Google Cloud was not in

The DMA is part of the European Union's bolstered legal armoury that seeks to make the digital market fairer with a list of do's and don'ts for Big Tech companies, which it refers to as "gatekeepers" such as Apple.

The twin probes aim to assess whether AWS and Microsoft "should be designated as the gatekeepers on

In a statement the commission said it would analyse whether the two "act as important gateways between businesses and consumers, despite not meeting the DMA

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