The Pentagon scrapped a $10 billion cloud-computing contract awarded in 2019 to Microsoft Corp . The new cloud contract, dubbed the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability, will be awarded to multiple vendors for a period of five years. The Defense Department said it hasn’t yet determined a maximum award amount for the replacement cloud project, but expects it to be in the billions of dollars. When Microsoft won the JEDI contract, it was seen as sign the company was catching up to Amazon, with some analysts touting it as possibly “the largest cloud contract award in history." The Defense Department denied that politics influenced its decision to award Microsoft the deal.

Source: Mint July 06, 2021 17:03 UTC