Claim LD11-HQ-C09 (v1.0)

On 25 June 2026 the European Commission preliminarily considered AWS and Azure important cloud gateways that should be designated under the DMA, citing lock-in, switching costs and the growing role of AI in cloud procurement.

Provenance and status

Claim type: FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: Final designation, unlawful conduct or quantitative market share
Source (field 6, as printed): European Commission, 25 Jun 2026 preliminary DMA position
Source type (field 7): REGULATOR_PRIMARY (as printed: “Regulatory primary”)
Institutional position: EU regulator
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
Recorded date: 2026-09-25
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD11-HQ-C09--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“European Commission, 25 Jun 2026 preliminary DMA position” → SRC-LD11-EC-DMA-CLOUD-PRELIMINARY-2026-06--v1.0 — European Commission, 25 Jun 2026 preliminary DMA position; class REGULATOR_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)

Read the originals

SRC-LD11-EC-DMA-CLOUD-PRELIMINARY-2026-06: open the original

All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD11-HQ-C09	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	On 25 June 2026 the European Commission preliminarily considered AWS and Azure important cloud gateways that should be designated under the DMA, citing lock-in, switching costs and the growing role of AI in cloud procurement.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	B/E/F — Cloud, distribution and regulation	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	European Commission, 25 Jun 2026 preliminary DMA position	source_ids: SRC-LD11-EC-DMA-CLOUD-PRELIMINARY-2026-06
7	SOURCE TYPE	Regulatory primary	classes: REGULATOR_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	EU regulator	—
9	SCOPE	EU cloud computing services; preliminary DMA proceeding	—
10	DESIGN	Regulatory investigation	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Commission investigation record	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	n.a.	—
13	COMPARATOR	DMA designation criteria	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Preliminary view only; final gatekeeper status not established by the cut	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Regulatory evidence of gateway mechanisms	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Final designation, unlawful conduct or quantitative market share	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Live proceeding; status can change quickly	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	UK CMA provides related but jurisdiction-specific evidence	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	EU / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	EU business users depend on large cloud ecosystems	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D1, D6, L-B, LD-11, LD-12	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Final Commission decision	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D1 (DOMAIN); D6 (DOMAIN); L-B (LENS); LD-11 (LIVING_DEBATE); LD-12 (LIVING_DEBATE)

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-11 v0.1

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 726706b7822a5293adcf0b957771f3ce2e82757e7a6a6b9a2857312134d91ca2.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID 1Ff_IzUBMpax35rKovu0vxXr1WTtpfCDP; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified ; block “ENTRY 09 — LD11-HQ-C09 ” SHA-256 60559710eea4f02cfe40436afb9893a329edbf6ef510e241a5442a2c98f28d2a; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/r06-ld11-claim-ledger-v1.0.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD11-EC-DMA-CLOUD-PRELIMINARY-2026-06--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 09 — LD11-HQ-C09 cites "European Commission, 25 Jun 2026 preliminary DMA position"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #41 Source inventory): Batch 02 §3; ledger C09 fields 6/7/8; KEY EVIDENCE.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD11-EC-DMA-CLOUD-PRELIMINARY-2026-06--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "European Commission, 25 Jun 2026 preliminary DMA position"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #41 Source inventory): Batch 02 §3; ledger C09 fields 6/7/8; KEY EVIDENCE.