{"id":959018,"date":"2025-09-03T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959018"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:32:39","slug":"microsoft-to-discount-cloud-services-for-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/03\/microsoft-to-discount-cloud-services-for-us-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to discount cloud services for US government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has agreed to give US agencies a discount on its cloud services, the General Services Administration said Tuesday, as part of the administration&#8217;s push to sign deals with tech companies for departments across the executive branch. <\/p>\n<p>The deal will save the US government up to $3 billion in the first year, according to GSA and Microsoft. Reuters could not immediately verify that figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has agreed to give US agencies a discount on its cloud services, the General Services Administration said Tuesday, as part of the administration&#8217;s push to sign deals with tech companies for departments across the executive branch. The deal will save the US government up to $3 billion in the first year, according to GSA and Microsoft. Reuters could not immediately verify that figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}