Competition? We've heard of it. MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig

Only the beast of Redmond could meet 'data sovereignty and reliability' needs, says UK.gov department

The UK's Ministry of Defence has handed Microsoft a 17.75m contract to run hosted services in the Azure Cloud - and rivals won't even get a chance to compete due to requisite "data sovereignty and reliability"....