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Doesn't Azure have a separate cloud exclusively for the US goverment? If so why would they use the commercial one?

They do, there is GCC, and GCC-High. There are a number of reasons why, but the most common would probably be the additional cost of resources and staffing.

Feature for feature, the core functionality is the same. There’s more overhead in GCC and some features in public are delayed in implementation.

We had a sales pitch by a MS partner and they made it sound like provisioning/ migrating services to gov cloud was seamless. It makes sense there is overhead involved from compliance. Two years to pivot seems pretty crazy though.

The gov cloud is atleast 10-30% more expensive

Not to mention all the additional access constraints that require folks that use it to be properly credentialed.

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