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by Johnny555 2807 days ago
There are some large companies that don't want to run on Amazon, so they are probably trying to court that business... but I'm surprised they went with Azure instead of Google.

I wonder if they are trying to get Walmart?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/wal-mart-to-vendors-get...

EDIT

I don't have to speculate, that's definitely why they went to Azure:

Retail clients have pushed Snowflake Computing to make its software available on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure cloud.

Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia (a Microsoft vet) says that a number of retail customers “particularly a large one based in Arkansas” have “a fairly strong opinion” about the Azure availability.

The Arkansas reference is likely to Walmart, which prefers not to use competitor Amazon’s cloud.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3369703-cloud-data-warehouse-c...