Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft

The chair of the competition markets authority's cloud inquiry has quit, citing the slow pace of implementing recommendations outlined in a report it published in 2025 to boost market dynamics in Britain's cloud computing market.

Kip Meeks, who worked as Inquiry Chair at the Competition and Markets Authority since 2018, provisionally found that the cloud market was working well… for AWS and Microsoft. For customers, interoperability challenges and Microsoft licensing policies were a sticking point.

With the two US hyperscalers accounting for up to 90 percent of the country's cloud services market, the CMA inquiry in July advised designating the pair with strategic market status for cloud computing, meaning they'd face stricter rules as tech firms with "substantial and entrenched market power" and significant influence over specific digital activities. Yet a year after that finding, and almost two-and-a-half years after the investigation first began, the industry ...