AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle secure major US military contract
AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle each secured a part of the US military's Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. The announcement marks the end of a long-lasting competition to secure the contract.
The US Department of Defense has decided that the €8.5 billion JWCC contract will... Read more
The Pentagon scraps $10B JEDI cloud contract for new initiative
The US Department of Defense announced on Tuesday that it is canning the controversial JEDI contract that was meant to fund a cloud computing effort. The $10 billion contract will be replaced by a new procurement program that could see more than one provider contracted.
The new program has been ... Read more
Pentagon expressing doubts about JEDI-contract with Microsoft
The U.S. Department of Defense wants to reconsider a 10 billion dollar (9 billion euro) cloud contract (the JEDI-contract) that it awarded to Microsoft. It has requested permission to do so from the court.
A month ago, an American court approved a request from competitor AWS, which temporarily p... Read more
Judge halts Microsoft’s billion-dollar contract with Pentagon
A contract worth about ten billion dollars was awarded to Microsoft last year, making the tech giant the designated party to help departments of the U.S. Department of Defense move to the cloud. That while competitor Amazon had expected to win the contract, as those services, according to AWS, are ... Read more
Amazon is trying to stop Microsoft from working on JEDI contract
A tender for a ten billion dollar defense contract was awarded to Microsoft last year: Amazon Web Services came up short. In an attempt to undo the choice for Microsoft, AWS goes to court to at least temporarily prevent the contract from actually going ahead.
For the cloud project Joint Enterpri... Read more
Pentagon pauses controversial JEDI cloud contract
The Pentagon has announced that it is pausing the controversial $10 billion cloud contract. Defence Minister Mark Esper says he wants to further investigate the so-called JEDI contract following complaints from US President Trump about the award process of the contract.
Pentagon spokesman Elissa ... Read more
President Trump out of concerns about JEDI contract Pentagon
US President Donald Trump has expressed concern about the Pentagon's JEDI contract. That's what two insiders say about Bloomberg. The president has demanded more information to determine whether he should intervene or not.
The JEDI contract is a contract that the Pentagon awards to a single cloud pr... Read more
Oracle loses court case around controversial JEDI contract
A federal court in the United States has dismissed an Oracle lawsuit. The company wanted the case to force the Pentagon to change the controversial JEDI contract.
The JEDI contract of the U.S. Department of Defense revolves around the cloud. The Ministry wants to transfer its internal infrastructure... Read more
Only Microsoft and Amazon are still competing for the Pentagon’s JEDI contract.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are the only two parties still competing for the JEDI contract from the U.S. Department of Defense. That's what the ministry announced, says Bloomberg.
The Ministry of Defence wants to transfer its internal infrastructure to the cloud over the next ten years.... Read more
Oracle court case around controversial cloud contract shut down
Oracle's lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense has been temporarily halted. The case, which started with the JEDI cloud contract of 8.8 billion euros (10 billion dollars), has been shut down so that the ministry can look into possible conflicts of interest. It is not yet certain when the in... Read more