Amazon Faces Widening U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny in Cloud Business
- FTC said to broaden Amazon inquiry beyond online retail
- Amazon’s cloud business leads market over No. 2 Microsoft
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U.S. antitrust enforcers have broadened their scrutiny of Amazon.com Inc. beyond its retail operations to include its massive cloud-computing business, according to people familiar with the matter.
Investigators at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission have been asking software companies recently about practices around Amazon’s cloud unit, known as Amazon Web Services, said the people, who declined to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.