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Pentagon scraps Trump's US$10 billion cloud deal for Microsoft

By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson on Jul 7, 2021 6:54AM
Pentagon scraps Trump's US$10 billion cloud deal for Microsoft

Reviving Amazon bid.

The US Defense Department cancelled its US$10 billion JEDI cloud-computing project on Tuesday, pulling the Trump-era award to Microsoft and announcing a new multi-vendor contract expected to include its big tech rival AWS. The contract awarded by the Pentagon in late 2019 has been on hold after ...

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By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson
Jul 7 2021
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