Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should not be designated as having dominant status in the cloud market under the U.K.’s digital markets regime. In its decision, which followed a three-year investigation, the CMA concluded that neither of the two leading American cloud services have Strategic Market Status (SMS), a designation that under the U.K.'s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC) would have imposed