The regulator said the enquiry provisionally found that the lack of competition could result in higher costs, less choice and innovation, and lower quality of service for businesses and organizations across the British economy.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced its preliminary findings that the cloud services market "is not working as well as it could be." That relatively vague statement follows a 16-month investigation into the UK's cloud services market,

Web Services could come under scrutiny from U.K. regulators after an independent investigation found a lack of competition in the cloud-services market.