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Although $10B might not seem like much in terms of revenue for the cloud companies (that statement feels weird writing), it is potentially worth a lot more.

The DoD drives a lot of the US economy and a lot of companies have DoD contracts. This win, gives Microsoft an advantage n trying to get these companies on Azure and solidifies Windows and Office 365 positions at these companies. The follow on effects will likely be worth many multiples of this contract.

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Hoping it also ups Microsoft's game on Azure Functions, monitoring, etc. AWS needs a reason to be scared.

Azure Functions are pretty nice, hope they continue evolving the service.

As long as they fix the blasted runtime. Azure Functions has it's own dll loader, and other complexities that means it doesn't place nice with .net or the larger ecosystem. Currently it does not support .net 3, and I can't even use the most recent version of System.Data.SqlClient. I like functions it was a good move, but the 'not-quite-.net' keeps getting in the way.

That's exactly what I meant by "up their game" and well stated.

My issue with it is the 10 minute run limit, and the massive memory leak issues if you use durable functions with fan-out. I had to move away from functions and switched to NServiceBus instead.

Ya I don't see them moving their entire infrastructure out of Azure in 10 years unless they use kubernetes/other extremely portable software for nearly everything.

Also other parts of the government may say "If it's good enough for the DoD, good enough for us".

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