Alphabet’s Google Cloud has accused Microsoft of anti-competitive cloud computing practices and criticised imminent offers with European cloud distributors, saying these don’t clear up broader considerations about its licensing phrases.

Google Cloud Vice President Amit Zavery urged EU antitrust regulators to take a better have a look at the problem. (ALSO READ: Microsoft to place ChatGPT AI mannequin in Bing search engine to problem Google)

Google Cloud’s first public feedback on Microsoft and its EU offers underscores the rivalry between the 2 U.S. tech giants within the multi-billion-dollar cloud computing enterprise the place Google trails market chief Amazon and second-ranked Microsoft.

“Microsoft definitely has a very anti-competitive posture in cloud. They are leveraging a lot of their dominance in the on-premise business as well as Office 365 and Windows to tie Azure and the rest of cloud services and make it hard for customers to have a choice,” Zavery instructed Reuters in an interview late on Wednesday.

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“When we talk to a lot of our customers, they find a lot of these bundling practices, as well as the way they create pricing and licensing restrictions, make it difficult for them to choose other providers,” he mentioned.

He criticised Microsoft’s offers with smaller European cloud distributors.

Microsoft has provided to alter its cloud computing practices in a cope with smaller rivals which in flip will droop their antitrust complaints, an individual with direct information of the matter instructed Reuters this week. The transfer will stave off an EU investigation.