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All stories will be reviewed by the Applied Cloud Stories Committee of highly technical experts consisting of Azure Engineering, Advocacy, and Industry representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to select outstanding publications in each category. The Committee members will vote to determine a limited number of featured stories and 1 (one) winning story in each category, based on their subjective opinion.

Featured stories in each category will be published at one or several Microsoft technical content platforms, including Azure Dev.to, Azure Medium publication, Open-Source at Microsoft blog to share exceptional stories with a wide audience all over the world, with your permission and with the link to the original.

Winner in each category will receive the title of a Recognized Community Contributor from Microsoft, an opportunity to have a discussion with Azure engineering team, and a non-monetary gratitude prize, including custom art by Ashley McNamara.

We are grateful for every single story we will receive, as each story will contribute to the efforts of raising awareness of practical, in-depth, and innovative approaches to relevant, emerging, uncovered, advanced use cases and scenarios in the industry.