A group of 27 cloud providers have agreed to settle the complaint they lodged with the European Commission over alleged anti-competitive behaviour related to the cost they pay to run Microsoft’s software in their datacentres. The agreement, which will remain confidential, was voted on this afternoon by the members of the Cloud Infrastructure Service Provider of Europe (CISPE) trade group, comprising of 26 firms in Europe and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It means Microsoft has managed to avoid greater scrutiny and a potential date with the regulators.
