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Google files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft

Google filed a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft on Wednesday. It accused Microsoft of making it difficult for cloud customers to move their work from Azure to other providers.

“Microsoft’s own statements indicate that customers who want to move their workloads to these competitors would need to pay up to five times more,” Google wrote, citing an archived 2023 webpage comparing Azure pricing to that of AWS. The study claims that European companies and government organizations pay “unfair, additional costs” to customers who license software to run on cloud infrastructure from independent service providers. Google Cloud’s Head of Platform Amit Zavery wrote on Wednesday that Microsoft’s practices lock customers into Azure, hurt cybersecurity and limit innovation.

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