Google (GOOGL) plans to give a major discount on cloud services to the U.S. government after Oracle (ORCL) cut a deal with the government that includes a 75% discount on some software contracts for a limited period and “substantial discounts” on its wider cloud computing contracts, The Financial Times’ Joe Miller, Rafe Uddin, and Stephen Morris report. Google’s cloud contract is likely “to land in a similar spot,” according to a senior official at the General Services Administration. A deal is expected to be finalized within weeks. Similar discounts from Microsoft’s (MSFT) Azure and Amazon Web Services (AMZN) are expected to follow soon, but sources say those talks are less advanced than with Alphabet (GOOG).
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