Microsoft and Amazon Web Services could face an investigation by U.K. regulators after an independent enquiry found that competition isn’t working in the cloud services market.The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday that the enquiry provisionally found that the lack of competition could result in higher costs,

If the companies are found to have ‘strategic market status’ then they could face restrictions on egress fees and software licensing.

UK regulator files report on health of local sector, says technical barriers and Redmond's licensing practices hurting smaller rivals + customers The UK's market regulator says "competition is not working as well as it could" in the local cloud services sector,