Amazon wins suspension of US$10 bil Jedi contract to Microsoft

Company alleges it was shut out of deal due to president Donald Trump's vendetta against it. FMTNews

SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the US military from awarding a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract to Microsoft, after Amazon claimed the process was tainted by politics.

The 10-year contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure programme will ultimately see all military branches sharing information in a cloud-based system boosted by artificial intelligence. “We have confidence in the Department of Defence, and we believe the facts will show they ran a detailed, thorough and fair process in determining the needs of the warfighter were best met by Microsoft,” Microsoft vice president of communications Frank Shaw said.Amazon was considered the lead contender to provide technology for Jedi, with AWS dominating the cloud computing arena and the company already providing classified servers for other government agencies including the CIA.

Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, is a frequent target of the US president, who claims the newspaper is biased against him.

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