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Network World Cloud Computing Alert Sep 27, 2016 As Adobe, Microsoft Azure ink cloud partnership, Amazon looms To kick off his company's Ignite conference in Atlanta this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Adobe will run three of its most popular software as a service apps on the Microsoft Azure IaaS cloud. The move is a power play by Microsoft, but it should be taken with a grain of salt: Adobe uses Azure competitor Amazon Web Services heavily, too. 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