Microsoft hits back at cloud CMA charge, says it isn't raising customer costs unduly

A building at the Microsoft Headquarters campus in Redmond, Washington (2014).

Microsoft, which has been under the microscope in Europe recently for its apparently unfair dominance over the cloud market, has responded to similar complaints from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

The company insists its terms “do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs,” adding that Amazon remains the market-leading hyperscaler in the UK, and that the CMA should instead focus its efforts on Microsoft’s rival company.