He also expanded its cloud business Azure which has become the biggest rival to Amazon's AWS.

他还拓展了云服务Azure，如今它已成为亚马逊AWS的主要竞争对手。

For the past five years it has been closing in on aws (see chart 2).

在过去的五年里，它一直在逼近 aws（见图 2）。

Microsoft keeps expanding its list of health-related cloud-computing offerings (as is Amazon, through aws, its cloud unit).

微软不断扩大其与健康相关的云计算产品列表（亚马逊也是如此，通过其云部门 aws）。

Perhaps $40bn is being ploughed this year into data centres and other physical gear by aws and others.

aws 和其他公司今年可能向数据中心和其他物理设备投入了 400 亿美元。

Customers have also complained about the way Microsoft's software licences nudge companies to use Azure, rather than aws and gcp.

客户还抱怨微软的软件许可证促使公司使用 Azure，而不是 AWS 和 GCP。

The first blue aws in the United States go back to 1617, even before we were a country, in the state of Virginia.

美国的第一个蓝色 aws 可以追溯到 1617 年，甚至在我们成为一个国家之前， 在弗吉尼亚州。

That, in turn, could drive business to Azure, Microsoft's high-margin cloud business, possibly helping it overtake Amazon Web Services (aws) to become the world's biggest cloud firm.

反过来，这可能会推动微软高利润云业务 Azure 的业务发展，并可能帮助其超越亚马逊网络服务 (aws)，成为全球最大的云公司。

Cloud computing took off about 15 years ago, as businesses began to outsource their web-hosting, data centres, core computer systems and many applications to a few big providers, particularly the pioneer aws, run by Amazon.

云计算大约在 15 年前起飞， 当时企业开始将其网络托管、数据中心、 核心计算机系统和许多应用程序外包给几家大型供应商， 尤其是亚马逊运营的先驱 aws。