We’re the public sector, we operate more than 500 it systems, some of which won’t be leaving the windows platform. We run office 365, Skype for business and ha

We’re the public sector, we operate more than 500 it systems, some of which won’t be leaving the windows platform. We run office 365, Skype for business and handle our Security through af and adfs for 10.000 employees. So we’re already heavily invested in Microsoft as far as what our IT staff is trained in, and they prefer Azure to say AWS often for non-technical reasons, but that sort of motivation is still important from a management point of view, even if you can run windows in AWS. That’s one reason. The other factors is that we’re in the EU and Microsoft were the first to implement our laws, without fighting them. Unlike AWS I can physically visit our Azure servers, though this requires you to throw a lot of money at Microsoft. Last but not least, Microsoft is a trusted partner that we’ve worked with for 25 years, Amazon is not. There weren’t any other options than AWS and Microsoft, because we’re in the eu and in the public sector, and AWS wasn’t under the privacy laws at the time we started. A lot of our neighbors are choosing AWS though, so it’s certainly viable today.