Microsoft-owned Minecraft will stop using Amazons cloud

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Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., attends the Viva Tech start-up and technology gathering at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2018 in Paris, France. Moving more of its own software to Azure can help Microsoft make the case to customers that it doesnt look anywhere else for computing, storage and networking resources to deliver its online services. The use of AWS for Minecraft for a version called Realms — virtual places for small groups to gather and play the open-world game together — dates to 2014. "Mojang Studios has used AWS in the past, but weve been migrating all cloud services to Azure over the last few years," a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email. It would not have been right to make Mojang get off AWS immediately after the acquisition, Matt Booty, the head of studios at Microsoft, suggested in a recent interview.

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