Bloomberg has claimed that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will continue the antitrust investigation into Amazon Web Services (AWS), citing anonymous people familiar with the matter.
The sources, who have remained anonymous because they are not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, say the recent questionnaires the FTC sent to Amazon partners and customers are a strong indication that the Commission is serious about its intentions. commercial.
The FTC and its director, Lina Khan, say the company may have discriminated against competitors who also sell their products to AWS customers, favoring customers who choose to work exclusively with AWS and punishing everyone else.
Amazon claims Khan is biased
The FTC and Amazon have so far remained silent on the matter, though Amazon filed a petition in June demanding that Khan be removed from antitrust rulings, saying previous criticism of Khan meant she was one-sided.
He also provided the FTC with all the information it requested, Bloomberg recalls.
The FTC began investigating Amazon long before Khan took over. It was actually Joe Simons of the Trump administration who started surveying not just AWS, but also Amazon's retail business. For the third quarter of the year, Amazon's cloud hosting business AWS generated €4.88 billion in operating income for Amazon, up 38% and more than the consensus of 4, €12 billion expected by analysts. , CNBC previously reported. The company as a whole ended the quarter with operating income of €4.850 billion. The company's shares fell 1% on the news, but quickly recovered.
It owns almost a third (32%) of the entire cloud infrastructure services market, followed by 21% of Microsoft Azure, according to Statista.
Via: Bloomberg