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Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's US$10bn cloud computing contract

By Phil Stewart

Oct 28 2019 6:56AM

Long awaited decision on Jedi.

Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's US$10bn cloud computing contract

Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon's US$10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com Inc . The contracting process had long been mired in conflict of interest allegations, even drawing the attention of President Donald Trump, who ...

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