According to Reuters, CISPE denies the agreement in connection with the antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft

CISPE, whose members include Amazon (AMZN) and 26 small EU cloud service providers, denied Politico reports that it was close to striking a deal with Microsoft (MSFT) to withdraw its antitrust complaint filed with the European Commission over the U.S. company’s cloud computing licensing practices, Reuters report Gursimran Kaur, Utkarsh Shetti and Mrinmay Dey. “These rumors are untrue,” cloud infrastructure service providers in Europe said when contacted by Reuters regarding the Politico report. “Discussions between CISPE and Microsoft are ongoing and although proposals have been put forward, no agreement has been reached.” “Any offer will have to be submitted for approval to the General Meeting of the association, which involves 34 European cloud service providers located in more than 14 member states,” he added.