Late yesterday, Amazon's unsealed complaint regarding the Pentagon's $10 billion JEDI contract win going to its cross-town rival finally made its way to the light, and the information held within offers a different take on Microsoft's ultimate procurement of the ... Read more
Today's announcement will surely invite another round of legal battles from Amazon
It remains unclear if the company is now using legalese to skirt around its own definition of law enforcement involvement
In response to Microsoft's corporate vice president of communications Frank X. Shaw's recent blog post title Bid high, lose, try again. Amazon continues to push for JEDI re-do, an Amazon counterpart to Shaw, Drew Herdener, has pinned the company's rebuttal ... Read more
The DoD has begun to accelerate Microsoft Teams deployment ahead of schedule.
As Amazon continues lobbing legal attacks at the US Department of Defense for awarding its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract to Microsoft, the company may have nailed a haymaker according to an unsealed ruling from the federal judge who ... Read more
Could also end up costing Amazon upwards of $42 million if the courts find the current hold to be inaccurate.
Ironically, Amazon now finds itself on the receiving end of an alleged biased conclusion.
Amazon could effectively put a halt on Microsoft's scheduled contracted work on February 11, 2020.
Protest of the outcome JEDI evaluation which primarily points the finger at President Trump's late-stage involvement that result in Microsoft's win.
With Microsoft emerging the winner of the JEDI contract after months of controversial jockeying by companies, lawsuits and governmental scrutiny, it now seems some of those losers still have issues with the outcome.
Shortly after winning the highly publicized Department of Defense JEDI contract, Microsoft is now sending representatives to meet with the Pentagon officials, according to reports from Bloomberg. Specifically, Microsoft representatives started meeting with Pentagon officials as early as today, November ... Read more
This new $7.6 billion agreement does put Microsoft and General Dynamics comfortably within the Department of Defenses' zeitgeist.
The office is currently reviewing claims of potential ethics concerns regarding the JEDI contract worth $10 billion.
With President Trump possibly looking to settle a personal grievance with Amazon and AWS owner Jeff Bezo's, the company may have found itself an unintentional guardian angle in the process.
Today's outcome should clear the runway for the DoD to choose between Microsoft or Amazon as their next provider of cloud-based analytics, tactical and military deployment measures.
Amazon and Microsoft will be made aware of the winner by late August of 2019
It was a "principled decision" to not withhold technology from an institution that was elected in a democratic process to protect freedoms "we enjoy".
The new architecture will meet the same security compliance needs found for users of the Office 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) High and the Department of Defense.
The US Department of Defense announced last week last week that it has signed a five-year $1.76 billion deal with Microsoft, in which Redmond will provide enterprise services for the Department of Defense (DoD), Coast Guard, and intelligence community.
This April, the US Department of Defense is set to award a multi-year contract to a single cloud provider in what promises to be a massive win for either Microsoft or Amazon. The contract, said to be worth some $10 ... Read more