What you need to know Microsoft recently announced Azure will be handling AT&T's mobility network. The contract could result in over $1 billion per year in Azure revenues, according to analyst insights. Microsoft is hard at work injecting the power of Azure into anything and everything it can. Just recently, we saw the company figure out how to meld Azure with chocolate via its enhanced partnership with Mars, and now we're seeing its cloud service's presence boom with AT&T via a new strategic alliance. Here's a quick excerpt from Microsoft's press writeup to get you up to speed on the deal: "AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to the Microsoft cloud. This strategic alliance provides a path for all of AT&T's mobile network traffic to be managed using Microsoft Azure technologies."