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November 4, 2019

Pentagon awaits possible Amazon challenge over cloud deal

  • Amazon was long thought to be the front-runner in the competition for the huge military contract, which was awarded instead to rival Microsoft.
  • By MATT O'BRIEN
    AP Technology Writer

    Amazon must decide soon if it will protest the Pentagon's awarding of a $10 billion cloud computing contract to rival Microsoft, with one possible grievance being the unusual attention given the project by President Donald Trump.

    Amazon was long thought to be the front-runner in the competition for the huge military contract. Its Amazon Web Services division is far ahead of second-place Microsoft in cloud computing, and Amazon has experience handling highly classified government data. It survived earlier legal challenges after the Defense Department eliminated rival bidders Oracle and IBM and whittled the competition down to the two Seattle area tech giants before choosing Microsoft in October.


     
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