Ending the bitter Cloud war, the Pentagon has awarded its multi-billion dollar Cloud-computing contract to all the major players — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle – that can reach up to $9 billion in total till 2028.<\/p>\n
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The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) will allow mission owners to acquire authorised commercial cloud offerings directly from the Cloud Service Providers contract awardees.<\/p>\n
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“No funds are being obligated at the time of award; funds will be obligated on individual orders as they are issued. The purpose of this contract is to provide the Department of Defense with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud services across all security domains and classification levels, from the strategic level to the tactical edge,” Pentagon said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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After witnessing a bitter war over the $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) Cloud computing contract, the Pentagon last year announced a new cloud initiative that replaced the ill-fated JEDI contract.<\/p>\n
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The Pentagon had to cancel the $10 billion JEDI contract that was given to Microsoft in 2019, leaving the favourite Amazon out of the race during the Donald Trump administration.<\/p>\n
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All Cloud giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle were invited to bid for the JWCC Cloud contract.<\/p>\n
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“The government anticipates awarding two contracts — one to Amazon Web Services AWS) and one to Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) — but intends to award to all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) that demonstrate the capability to meet DoD’s requirements,” the Pentagon had said in a statement in November last year.<\/p>\n
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The JEDI contract was meant to modernise the Pentagon’s IT operations for services rendered over 10 years. After Microsoft was awarded the decade-long contract in October 2019, AWS had filed a bid protest directly to DoD, challenging the decision.<\/p>\n
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Amazon believed that the re-evaluation process was highly flawed, and subject to undue pressure from the former US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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