[revengeforbees]

They do, there is GCC, and GCC-High. There are a number of reasons why, but the most common would probably be the additional cost of resources and staffing.

Feature for feature, the core functionality is the same. There’s more overhead in GCC and some features in public are delayed in implementation.

[Mizoguchi]

We had a sales pitch by a MS partner and they made it sound like provisioning/ migrating services to gov cloud was seamless. It makes sense there is overhead involved from compliance. Two years to pivot seems pretty crazy though.