The Pentagon has said it is cancelling a cloud computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth 10 billion dollars (£7 billion) and will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Amazon. “With the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the Jedi Cloud contract, which has long been delayed, no longer meets the requirements to fill… capability gaps,” the Pentagon said in a statement. The statement did not directly mention the Pentagon faced extended legal challenges by Amazon to the original contract awarded to Microsoft. Amazon Web Services, a market leader in cloud computing, had long been considered a leading candidate to run the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure project, known as Jedi. The Jedi contract became mired in legal challenges almost as soon as it was awarded to Microsoft in October 2019.

Source: Irish Independent July 06, 2021 17:05 UTC