The CMA will continue to engage with the two firms and monitor the changes, it said.
The regulator simultaneously announced that it will open a new SMS designation investigation into Microsoft’s corporate software services.
In a blog post, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that the changes proposed by the software giant address the concerns that the CMA raised during its investigation.
“We appreciate the opportunity we have had for direct and constructive conversations with the CMA and its staff and look forward to an ongoing dialogue in relation to relevant cloud issues in the future,” said Smith.
A spokesperson for AWS said that the agency’s decision “accurately reflected the industry’s dynamism,” noting that they had previously been disappointed by the agency’s 2025 recommendation to designate AWS.
In January, the chair of the panel that was in charge of the investigation into AWS and Microsoft Azure stepped down, citing the slow pace of implementing the investigation’s recommendations, as reported by The Morning Intelligence.
The European Commission is also considering whether or not to designate AWS and Microsoft Azure under the EU’s own digital market power regime.