News NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Cloud Contract to Amazon, Microsoft Complains

[Admin]

NSA has awarded a 10 billion Dollar cloud contract to Amazon, and Microsoft filed a complaint as it didn't get a piece of the government cake.

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[TJ Hooker]

In July, US government officials announced that they are ending the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract due to many appeals from Microsoft. AWS won the contract, and Microsoft has complained multiple times, canceling the contract at the end due to legal disputes between the cloud providers and the government.

I think you have this backwards. MS won that contract, and the appeals were from Amazon.

 

[purple_dragon]

I think you have this backwards. MS won that contract, and the appeals were from Amazon.

Now the shoes on the other foot.