Microsoft Asks Google, Oracle to Help Crimp Amazon’s U.S. Government Cloud Leadership

Microsoft is rallying other big-name cloud-computing providers such as Alphabet Google and Oracle to press the U.S. government into spreading its spending on such services more widely, taking aim at Amazon.com dominance in such contracts.

The software giant has issued talking points to other cloud companies aimed at jointly lobbying Washington to require major government projects to use more than one cloud service, according to people familiar with the effort and a document viewed by The Wall Street Journal.