Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Apple’s cloud services, examining the company under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to multiple outlets. The probe involves whether Apple’s practices related to cloud offerings fall within the DMA’s obligations for large digital gatekeepers and competition-related requirements. The Italian regulator is conducting its review under the EU’s digital market framework rather than solely through traditional national antitrust approaches. The decision brings Apple’s cloud business under scrutiny by a regulator that, in recent years, has been active in reviewing major tech companies’ conduct in Europe. The reporting describes the investigation as an additional step that follows the broader EU effort to enforce the DMA across digital services. No specific findings or outcomes are reported in the available summaries, and the outlets focus on the regulator’s decision to begin the probe and the regulatory basis for the review. The investigation’s scope and potential next steps are not detailed in the provided excerpts.