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by jhall1468 2629 days ago
You think Amazon cares? They will happily eat this as a loss-leader. Neither MS or Amazon is fighting over this for a measly $1B a year. They are fighting over this for $100s of Billions of contracts with other parts of the government.
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Not just other parts of government. There are a lot of big defense companies (ie Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, etc). Being on the same cloud as the DoD is going to be a big selling point.
“The nose of the camel under the tent” strategy.