Posted on 10/26/2019 10:13:37 AM PDT by libh8er
Amazon Web Services is "still evaluating options" after the Department of Defense selected Microsoft for a $10 billion contract to move the agency's database to the cloud, according to a source close to the situation.
"We're surprised about this conclusion," an AWS spokesperson said in a statement. "AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing, and a detailed assessment purely on the comparative offerings clearly lead to a different conclusion. We remain deeply committed to continuing to innovate for the new digital battlefield where security, efficiency, resiliency, and scalability of resources can be the difference between success and failure."
This contract – known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract – is a 10-year contract to move the Department of Defense's database to the cloud.
It's a big loss for AWS, which drives the majority of the profit for the entire Amazon empire — and a surprise, given that AWS was the favorite to win by most industry-watchers.
It was not immediately clear what Amazon's options might be after losing the contract. The bidding process for JEDI began more than one year ago, contenders like Oracle and IBM were eliminated from the process in April. Oracle previously launched an ultimately-failed lawsuit alleging that the JEDI contract selection process was "riddled with improprieties."
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The force is strong with this one.
Damn, you’re right. My bad. My mind is slipping and I’m not keeping up. I forgot about Azure and how well it is doing.
good news for SDEs with clearances and experience with the MS stack, .NET, Powershell and Azure devops.
All of Amazon’s government cloud stuff is in northern Virginia. Even in the commercial cloud, you can pick where your stuff lives.
I trust Microsoft more than Amazon.
I have worked on cloud service projects using both Azure and AWS. Azure is superior to AWS. It was the correct decision to give the contract to Microsoft.
I’ve been in the hosting business for almost 20 years and I completely disagree. Redundant, yes. Easier to manage? Yes. Secure? Hell no. Not even close. Security has long ago been thrown out the window in favor of convenience.
personally, i can’t think of many things more dangerous than ‘moving our defense operations to the cloud’
that ten billion dollars of our tax money could be used to terminate all the unconstitutional ‘gun control’ and reassign its staff to useful work like guarding our borders
or just refund our taxes! there’s an idea!!! ha!
Im not. Microsquish has had large government contracts since before Amazon was selling books.
Gosh how great that all the H1B’s at Microcrap will get billions to roam around in US DoD data
And the Alleged American Satya Nadella will get wealthier because of it
Beyond nauseating
The DOD is moving to a cloud?
Controlled by a third party provider?
Why dont we just surrender now?
Buck Fezos.
You really rank Amazon, a bookstore by pedigree, above a 40 year old software company that has created and supported operating systems and complex applications? Interesting.
Nope. There’s an Azure Gov region in Texas, Arizona, Iowa and California.
And two military, DOD Central and South...
All Azure Gov employees MUST be US Citizens, in accordance with regulations.
There’s way too many FReepers that think know a lot about things that just aren’t so.
Especially when it comes to Microsoft, Apple or Linux—and, almost all of it is emotionally-based hatred or fan-boy love.
Isn’t it crazy.
You lost Bezos butt, get over it.
In cloud computing business today, Amazon is the largest in the world.
They didn’t have to be a “technology” company at the core, but from technology is how their company works and they have been very good at making the technology work for them.
They didn’t invent it, they became good at hiring the right engineers to put the best technology available to work.
Amazon had its first cloud services two years (2006) before Microsoft announced the project that would become Azure (2008) - its cloud computing platform - and four years before Microsoft’s platform was available (2010).
And Amazon, which is not technically a “technology” company, has been in the business of providing cloud services on its massive server farms, for four years longer than has the technology company Microsoft.
There is no ‘cloud’, it is just someone else’s servers.
Giving someone else control over all your data.
And kept on the internet.
Think about that. And remember this is DoD data.
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