After a bitter war over the $10 billion JEDI Cloud computing contract, Microsoft and Amazon have once again locked horns, this time over another $10 billion contract by the US National Security Agency (NSA) won by Amazon Web Services (AWS), the retail arm of Amazon.<\/p>\n
According to a report in Washington Technology, Microsoft is challenging that decision at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), “saying NSA didn’t conduct a proper evaluation” while considering a Cloud provider for its new project code-named ‘WildandStormy’.<\/p>\n
A decision is expected back from the GAO by October 29.<\/p>\n
In a statement to NextGov, an NSA spokesperson said that “the Agency will respond to the protest in accordance with appropriate federal regulations.”<\/p>\n
The NSA is pursuing a “Hybrid Compute Initiative” to manage what goes into a “commercial cloud infrastructure and what pieces cannot be moved”.<\/p>\n
Last month, the US Department of Defense announced that Pentagon cancelled $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract that was given to Microsoft in 2019, leaving the favourite Amazon out of the race during the Donald Trump administration.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon said that “due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI Cloud contract no longer meets its needs.”<\/p>\n
The JEDI contract was meant to modernise the Pentagon’s IT operations for services rendered over 10 years. After Microsoft was awarded the decade-long contract in October 2019, Amazon Wed Services (AWS) had filed a bid protest directly to DoD, challenging the decision.<\/p>\n
Microsoft had said that it won the JEDI contract because the US Department of Defense found that it offered “significantly superior” technology at a better price.<\/p>\n
Amazon believed that the re-evaluation process was highly flawed, and subject to undue pressure from the former US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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