The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced its preliminary findings that the cloud services market "is not working as well as it could be." That relatively vague statement follows a 16-month investigation into the UK's cloud services market,

Web Services could come under scrutiny from U.K. regulators after an independent investigation found a lack of competition in the cloud-services market.

Amazon Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s UK cloud service offerings are facing closer scrutiny in the UK as the watchdog said it had concerns over their market dominance.