![]() ![]() ![]() Potentially worth up to US$10 billion over 10 years, the contract is part of the DoD’s digital modernisation strategy for the military, and its award to Microsoft was seen as a giant upset for AWS, which was viewed as the frontrunner. 1-ranked cloud computing provider, is appealing the DoD’s award of the massive Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract to Microsoft. ![]() ![]() The news comes via a joint status report filed yesterday with the US Court of Federal Claims in relation to AWS’ protest of the bid award and what it considers a flawed selection process tainted by alleged politically motivated interference from the White House and US president Donald Trump.ĪWS intends to file its motion for a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction on 24 January to prevent the “issuance of substantive task orders” under the contract, which the DoD previously said would begin 11 February, “given the United States’ consistent position that the services to be procured under the contract are urgently needed in support of national security.”ĪWS, the No. Amazon Web Services plans to seek a court ruling to prevent any substantive work orders being issued under the JEDI cloud computing contract while AWS appeals the US Department of Defense’s controversial October award of the US$10 billion project to Microsoft, its closest rival. ![]()
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