Amazon has reportedly been financing trade groups to discourage the award of large government cloud contracts to Microsoft Azure.
According to Bloomberg, efforts to complain about Microsoft's cloud being anticompetitive - ostensibly by groups like the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE), the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing (CFSL), and Alliance for Digital Innovation (ADI) - have been covertly funded largely by Amazon.
Despite the insistence of these organizations that they operate independently, Bloomberg claims a review of tax records and business documents and interviews indicates "Amazon Web Services plays a direct role in shaping their efforts in ways that would boost the cloud giant."
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