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6 year oldMicrosoft Wins $10 Billion Pentagon Cloud Contract, Beating Amazon
October 25, 2019 at 20:57
Other, smaller cloud rivals like IBM and Oracle were kicked out earlier in the process, which has been contentious and delayed.
Microsoft Corp. has been awarded the sought-after JEDI cloud computing contract with the Pentagon valued as much as $10 billion over a decade, the Defense Department said in a statement on Friday night.
The decision deals a blow to Amazon.com Inc., which had been seen as the most likely winner in a deal whose terms were hotly contested by another rival, Oracle Corp.
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