Amazon, Google named by EU among 'critical' tech providers for finance industry

By Elizabeth Howcroft PARIS (Reuters) -European Union regulators on Tuesday designated 19 technology companies, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft, as ​critical third-party computing providers for the bloc's finance industry. Under the EU's ‌Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which started being applied in January 2025, three EU-level financial regulators ‌can together name certain technology providers as critical and supervise them directly. The new rules are part of an a ...