Cloud Computing: The Pentagon Is Going To Observe A Contract Worth Upwardly To $10 Billion, Amazon Wants It, Too Then Does Google (Amzn, Goog)

So produce Microsoft, IBM as well as Oracle.
First up, Axios, Apr 12:

Pentagon cloud innovation favors Amazon, rivals say

As the Pentagon moves armed services information systems into the cloud, approximately manufacture experts as well as executives are questioning the wisdom of awarding the contract to merely ane vendor — peculiarly since that vendor mightiness good live Amazon.

Why it matters: Sure, Amazon's competitors desire a slice of this business. But they're likewise raising arguments most whether whatsoever unmarried cloud service provider tin regard the Defense Department's unique needs. 

What they're saying: Rivals struggle that the Pentagon's draft RFP (request for proposal) shows a pro-Amazon bent. But none would acquire on the tape to shout out specifics.

Concerns amongst Amazon: Amazon has deep sense inwards this infinite — as well as it has previously won 2 regime cloud contracts, including amongst the a society that partners amongst Amazon.com, competitors cried foul, as well as the Pentagon Axios' Jonathan Swan has reported (and many White House tweets take away maintain documented). Oracle declined to comment on Bloomberg's report. The White House did non response for asking to comment.

The stakes are high:

•  This could live a multi-billion dollar contract that lasts for a decade.
• Whichever vendor (or vendors) wins the laurels volition likewise acquire bragging rights that the Pentagon, amongst all of its classified as well as sensitive missions as well as data, trusts its system.....

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Another advantage, noted a couplet weeks agone inwards "Jeff Bezos Will Probably Consolidate His Power Bases In The Washington D.C. Area (AMZN)":

Additionally the novel place is (relatively) nigh CIA headquarters which is handy equally Amazon is becoming quite the petty spy contractor....

That contract was the appetizer, worth most $600 million initially.
And from Defense One, Apr 12: 
Google is Pursuing the Pentagon’s Giant Cloud Contract Quietly, Fearing An Employee Revolt 

Last August, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis made a journeying to the West Coast as well as met amongst Google founder Sergey Brin as well as CEO Sundar Pichai. Over a one-half hateful solar daytime of meetings, Google leaders described the company’s multi-year transition to cloud computing as well as how it was helping them prepare into a powerhouse for enquiry as well as evolution into artificial intelligence. Brin in particular was eager to showcase how much Google was learning every hateful solar daytime most AI as well as cloud implementation, according to ane electrical flow as well as ane one-time senior Defense Department official who spoke on status of anonymity.

It wasn’t an overt sales pitch, exactly, country the officials. But the number of the trip, during which Mattis likewise met representatives from Amazon, was transformative. He went W amongst deep reservations most a department-wide motility to the cloud as well as returned to Washington, D.C., convinced that the U.S. armed services had to motility much of its information to a commercial cloud provider — non merely to get produce files, email, as well as paperwork but to force mission-critical information to front-line operators.

In September, Defense Department officials announced that they would live moving onto the cloud inwards a large way. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, programme has since morphed into a unmarried contract potentially worth $10 billion over a decade, to live awarded past times year’s end.

The contest is even as well as then inwards its early on phases, amongst a asking for proposals expected equally early on equally this week....

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