Google formally accuses Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud monopoly
"Rather than supporting customer choice, Microsoft is unfairly leveraging customer dependencies to its own benefit," the group said in its public comment.
"Specifically, Microsoft is using its market power and restrictive and discriminatory licensing terms to: coerce customers into using Azure cloud infrastructure and lock them into the Azure ecosystem; tie products in the vertical stack of Microsoft ecosystem into an ever-growing suite of services, regardless of customer preferences, to advantage its products over competitors; limit integration capabilities of competing services on equal terms with its own products; and set its own products...
Microsoft's conduct has also been challenged in Europe by the Cloud Infrastructure Service Provider of Europe trade association, which counts AWS as a member. The group
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