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They would be a hero customer. From my understanding, Jet.com is already a reference customer, which means that they talk about intimate details about their infrastructure with prospective Microsoft customers.

A hero customer typically pushes your platform in radical ways to let you know what to improve. They're also someone you can talk about, and it instantly gains you credibility. For Azure, actual workloads are lacking, especially workloads that are volume, B2C businesses a la AWS's Netflix, and GCE's Spotify.




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