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799 Microsoft Considers Legal Action Over $50 Billion Amazon-OpenAI Cloud Deal

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/19/2026 11:00 EDT

Microsoft Considers Legal Action Over $50 Billion Amazon-OpenAI Cloud Deal

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Microsoft is considering legal action against its partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50 billion deal that could violate its exclusive cloud agreement with the ChatGPT maker, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Last month, Amazon and OpenAI signed several agreements, including one that makes Amazon Web Services the exclusive third-party cloud provider for Frontier, OpenAI's enterprise platform for building and running AI agents. The dispute centers on w

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