Microsoft Formally Opposes Amazon's NSA Cloud Computing Contract Win

  • Microsoft Corp MSFT protested with the Government Accountability Office on Jul. 21 against the National Security Agency award of a cloud computing contract.
  • It challenged NSA's decision to award the $10 billion contract to Amazon.com Inc AMZN.
  • The NSA will respond to the protest as per appropriate federal regulations, a spokesman stated, CNBC reports.
  • Amazon Web Services challenged the NSA when Microsoft won the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract in 2019, alleging President Donald Trump's bias.
  • The Department of Defense canceled the JEDI contract because the Microsoft-Amazon brawl announced a new multi-vendor contract known as the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability.
  • The NSA JEDI cloud contract aimed to modernize the Pentagon's IT operations for services rendered over as many as ten years.
  • Price Action: MSFT shares traded higher by 0.98% at $289.76on the last check Thursday.
  • Photo by efes via Wikimedia
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