Microsoft Teams Up With Flipkart To Battle Amazon For India's Cloud Services Market

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is leaving no stone unturned in wooing startups in India to its cloud platform Azure. On Monday, the Redmond-headquartered tech giant announced that Flipkart, India's e-commerce marketplace, will adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform. Nadella, who is in his maiden visit to Bangalore as the CEO of Microsoft, is in talks with other startups as well to understand their technology needs. He's pitching Azure cloud platform to users as the company looks to catch up with Amazon Web Services in India. Amazon started Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2003 after experiencing the need for cloud services first hand.