“you can just spin up a database in AWS or Azure and it's like no problem”
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“they could help serve the model in Azure.”
“we came up with this word Azure, which is, you know, another word for blue.”
“constrained by where AWS or Google cloud or Azure have built out”
“every big public company mentions Microsoft Azure or you know Amazon web servers you hear about cloud cloud and Cloud”
“the shared developer infrastructure for all Microsoft products like Windows and Office and Azure”
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