Friday, 24 March, 2023

Pentagon cancels $10bn cloud computing contract given to Microsoft

<p>Pentagon has canceled the $10bn cloud computing contract given to Microsoft in 2019 and said due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI Cloud contract no longer meets its needs. AWS directly challenged the Department of Defense on the deal. After the re-evaluation of the project, AWS continued to pursue the matter as they believed the re-evaluation to be highly flawed and politically influenced.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>