Rean markets itself as an Amazon partner, meaning it specializes in services associated with Amazon’s Web services company. The award led rivals to question why the Pentagon would award a contract to migrate services when it has yet to select the ultimate cloud provider. “There is a perception that this is an Amazon contract, but there is little to no truth on that,” Puli said. Industry suspicions were fanned earlier when the Defense Department published online a document justifying a sole-source award to Amazon Web Services for an Air Force cloud contract. Patrick Evans, said that the Rean contract was separate from the broad Pentagon-wide effort that is being overseen by the specially appointed Cloud Executive Steering Group.

Source: Washington Post February 09, 2018 22:24 UTC