The United States Department of Defense (DOD) Friday awarded a USD $10 billion contract to Microsoft to construct the JEDI Cloud (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure), a large piece of related IT infrastructure that seeks larger digital integration throughout the U.S. Military, and put together it for rising types of warfare. According to the New York Times, Amazon was the front-runner for the contract, having executed related infrastructure contracts for the CIA. The NYT feedback that President Donald Trump’s spat with The Washington Post, a paper owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, might have affected Amazon’s bid. Some of the most important American cloud corporations participated within the bidding, which embody Amazon AWS, Microsoft, IBM, Google, and Oracle.
