EU DMA cloud designation criticized as targeting US firms

The article is an opinion/commentary criticizing the European Commission’s preliminary decision to designate AWS and Azure under the Digital Markets Act.

• The author argues the Commission’s preliminary decision would extend the DMA to cloud computing services offered by Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure, despite the services not meeting the statute’s quantitative thresholds.
• It says the DMA’s thresholds include €7.5 billion in EU revenue or €75 billion market capitalization for gatekeepers, and 45 million monthly active end users plus 10,000 yearly active business users for core platform services; it also compares AWS and Azure with Spotify and SAP as examples of EU firms allegedly overlooked.