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> The only selling point Microsoft has for Azure in some domains is that Amazon is their competitor.

Can you explain this more? What's wrong with AWS compared to Azure?

The sentence is worded a little confusingly, but my interpretation of it is that for certain companies, since Amazon is a competitor in the business domain of that company, AWS is a nonstarter even if it's product offerings are a better choice. Walmart is the canonical example.

I worked for a company where this exact thing happened, for this exact reason.

I no longer work there, but they chose GCP because AWS wasn't even in the running because of this.

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