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The CMA will begin a Strategic Market Status investigation in May, examining whether Microsoft's licensing practices disadvantage rival cloud providers and whether AI integration into productivity tools could entrench dominance.

The EU's executive arm is investigating a breach of its Amazon Web Services account that exposed Europa.eu infrastructure, the second cloud incident to hit the institution in 2026.

Iranian drones struck three AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, knocking two availability zones offline and challenging the cloud industry's core resilience assumptions.

Amazon S3 marks its 20th anniversary storing over 500 trillion objects across hundreds of exabytes, while AWS progressively rewrites core storage components in Rust for memory safety and performance.

Threat actor FulcrumSec exploited the React2Shell vulnerability in LexisNexis AWS infrastructure, exfiltrating 3.9 million records and claiming access to 400,000 user profiles including U.S. government personnel.

Amazon launched its AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Brandenburg, Germany in January 2026 with €7.8 billion in investment and ~90 services, but legal experts warn the U.S. CLOUD Act may undermine its core sovereignty guarantees.

Amazon beats Q4 revenue estimates with AWS growing 24%, but a $200B capex plan — $51B above consensus — and 16,000 job cuts signal the true cost of competing in AI