A federal judge temporarily halted work Thursday on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract with Microsoft after Amazon claimed it lost out on the job because of inappropriate meddling by President Trump. It’s a key development in Amazon’s competition with Microsoft to dominate the cloud services market. Amazon’s AWS remains the hegemony of the cloud business, but Microsoft is gaining ground. Read More...
With $10B JEDI contract suspended, this is what’s at stake for Microsoft and Amazon
A federal judge temporarily halted work Thursday on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract with Microsoft after Amazon claimed it lost out on the job because of inappropriate meddling by President Trump. It’s a key development in Amazon’s competition with Microsoft to dominate the cloud services market. Amazon’s AWS remains the hegemony of the cloud business, but Microsoft is gaining ground.