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JEDI: Oracle and Google enter the bidding war for Pentagon cloud contract

Fin Strathern — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:31:14 +0000

The prolonged JEDI war – between Amazon and Microsoft, not Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker – for the $10 billion contract to modernise the US Department of Defence’s (DoD) cloud infrastructure has entered a new saga. Microsoft won the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) contract back in 2019, although its victory was short-lived when Amazon... Read more »

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US Supreme Court throws out Oracle’s JEDI contract challenge

Fin Strathern — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:56:00 +0000

The US Supreme Court has dismissed Oracle’s challenge to how the Pentagon awarded its now-cancelled $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) cloud contract. A lower court ruling found that the enterprise software company could not have been harmed by any Pentagon errors in awarding the contract as Oracle did not qualify for it... Read more »

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Pentagon cancels $10bn Jedi contract after Amazon challenge

Fin Strathern — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:23:00 +0000

The US Department of Defence (DoD) has cancelled its $10 billion (£7.2bn) cloud computing contract with Microsoft, pitting it back against Amazon for a renewed bidding war over the rights to develop the Pentagon’s long awaited cloud system. The cancellation follows Amazon’s filing of a lawsuit against the decision to award the ‘Jedi’ contract to... Read more »

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