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TIL that Microsoft is the least Israel-friendly of the big three clouds: > Among the cloud giants, Microsoft is considered the most vulnerable to anti-Israel p
by noworriesnate 5mo ago
TIL that Microsoft is the least Israel-friendly of the big three clouds:
> Among the cloud giants, Microsoft is considered the most vulnerable to anti-Israel protests and allegations of the use made by the Ministry of Defense on Azure, its cloud platforms, since it is the only company among the three major cloud companies that has not signed a special agreement with the Israeli government and the Ministry of Defense. The industry says that Haimovich, who is known as a prominent salesman with the government sector, was appointed country general manager, among other things, due to Microsoft's plans to retain and increase business with the government sector, despite not winning the Nimbus tender.
> In 2021, Israel awarded Amazon and Google the Nimbus cloud tender, encouraging government bodies and public organizations to migrate to these services, at the expense of Microsoft. In return, Amazon and Google pledged to establish service areas in data centers on Israeli soil, in order to avoid exposing security or government data to foreign regulation.
- hersko 5mo ago[flagged]
- cyanydeez 5mo agoNo, it's just a random coin toss. Most of what's happening with rich people becoming psychotic or anti-social is simply greed based. You add money to 70% of the population and they'll turn out to be an asshole. If Microsoft was given more attention by AIPAC or it's billionaires, it would've been the same. Watching the rise of fascism in america should really remind everyone that theres far more going on then a single idiot driving far right fascism.
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- noworriesnate 5mo agoBeing anti-Israel is a bipartisan position in the US among the constituents but not among the representatives (yet)
- idle_zealot 5mo agoThere's bipartisan consensus among both constituents and representatives. They're just the opposite consensus.
- WarmWash 5mo agoEhhh, people the on right hate Israel because they are Jewish and people on the left hate Israel because they are the oppressors in the conflict. Maybe there is some solidarity but rightoids love oppressors and lefties love non-discrimination.
- bhouston 5mo ago> TIL that Microsoft is the least Israel-friendly of the big three clouds This is a good thing. American companies should not be allowing their tech to be used to in the gross ongoing human rights violations in Israel/Gaza/West Bank. Google and Amazon knew their tech could be used for human rights abuses in Israel (their lawyers warned them so) but ignored that in favour of $$$ per the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-and-amazon-acknowledged-risks-and-ignored-responsibilities https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-and-amazon-ackn...
- ToucanLoucan 5mo ago[flagged]
- bhouston 5mo ago> Fully agreed, but also a hard sell given that America itself does not recognize what is happening there as a genocide. This has nothing to do with a declaration of genocide. Both Amazon and Google respectively have made commitments to not enable human rights violations: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/human-rights/principles#How%20we%20do%20this https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/human-rights/principl... https://about.google/company-info/human-rights/ https://about.google/company-info/human-rights/
- ToucanLoucan 5mo agoWell clearly they didn't mean much, which is about what I expect from any corporate policy declaration such as. If you believed them anyway, congratulations on having far more faith in corporations than I do.
- stasomatic 5mo agoLike... all of us 300 million plus? Thanks dude.
- undeveloper 5mo ago
- shimman 5mo agoThat must explain why the "least" friendly MSFT asked the FBI to spy on employees attending pro-Gaza/anti-genocide protests: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/microsoft-allegedly-asked-fbi-to-track-gaza-protests-by-employees/ https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/microsof... Good grief. Let's maybe not parrot out nation state propaganda with zero critical thinking on what's being said.
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- throw310822 5mo ago> success and powerful free democratic state in that part of the world And it's also a state whose prime minister is wanted for crimes against humanity. And the population mostly supports those crimes.
- myth_drannon 5mo ago[flagged]
- worik 5mo ago> Israel is the only successful and powerful free democratic state in that part of the world, Not true. The West Bank is being annexed by Israel and transformed into a racist state, where Jews have more rights than Arabs Not the actions of a "free democratic state"
- steele 5mo agoFree as in beer or free as in subsidized by the US taxpayer?
- j_maffe 5mo agoDo you wanna discuss what is the reason is for like 50% of those countries being dictatorships? https://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/carter-us-backed-egyptian-dictatorship-for-30-years-to-preserve-israel-treaty/ https://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/carter-us-backed-egyptian-dic...
- shrubble 5mo agoI’m kind of confused, in that Israel is not that big in terms of population, about 10 million people; how much data and cloud do they need? The state of Pennsylvania is 13 million; would MSFT losing PA do them serious financial damage?
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