Microsoft beat out Amazon last year in winning the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract with the Department of Defense.
The Department of Defense reaffirmed its decision to award Microsoft with the lucrative contract amid a bidding process clouded by politics.
So far, only Amazon Web Services had achieved this clearance from the Department of Defense. It comes as Amazon fights Microsoft's JEDI win.
Amazon had challenged the Pentagon's decision to award JEDI to Microsoft on technical grounds, and accusations of political bias.
2020-02-13T20:50:25Z
Microsoft won the contract over Amazon last year in a surprise upset, but Jeff Bezos & Co. are making life difficult.
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2019-12-31T18:12:43Z
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In the season finale of Disney's "The Mandalorian," an important lightsaber/sword from the Star Wars universe was revealed, the Darksaber.
Microsoft won the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract over Amazon. AWS re:Invent attendees predict its impact on the cloud wars.
The US and Microsoft filed a complaint about how Amazon redacted its document, which gives a little insight into what might be hidden by the black ink.
To make the case that Amazon should have won the JEDI contact, it details how it thinks its cloud is better.
Amazon says that it only lost the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract because of Trump. Microsoft now says it won based on its own merits.
Amazon's lawsuit against the Pentagon's $10 billion contract to Microsoft might cause a delay but won't affect the outcome, a prominent analyst said.
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2019-12-09T17:28:02Z
Amazon recently lost out to Microsoft on a $10 billion contract, called JEDI, to help the Department of Defense move its sensitive data to the cloud.
Amazon formally blamed Trump's alleged bias for the Pentagon's $10 billion contract award to Microsoft despite its own "superior technology."
At Amazon's biggest cloud conference of the year, its top cloud exec cited President Donald Trump's feud with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
VMware is keeping an eye on the JEDI process, where Microsoft won a contested surprise victory over Amazon.
2019-11-18T12:52:40Z
Neumann reportedly hoped the comparison to the $900 billion company would make WeWork's astronomical valuation look affordable.
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy reportedly told employees that President Donald Trump's beef with Amazon made the JEDI process inherently unfair.
Amazon made its first formal action against Microsoft's victory in the battle for a controversial $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract.
Microsoft's win over Amazon Web Services is like if the Washington Nationals won the World Series. Hey, wait.
Experts say Amazon might have a case to challenge the Pentagon's JEDI decision if it can prove political interference unfairly affected the outcome.