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Some applications, like autonomous vehicles, are going to require very, very strict guaranteed minimum latencies. A company that can guarantee those low latencies will have an advantage in specific applications categories.
That could very well be Azure, but it seems more likely it might be one of its competitors. It seems to me there's more incentive for an also-ran in the cloud market to tool its entire network for a set of narrowly defined (shall we even say "niche"?) applications.
In short, the size/reach of any particular cloud might not be the key measure by which an IoT services company would evaluate a potential cloud partner. Or set of partners, given that nobody of size who's been in the cloud market for long relies on a single cloud provider anyway.
-- Brian Santo