Jedi Contract News Today

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.

A fresh crop of smaller tech companies now have the chance to win some of the Department of Defense's IT dollars by providing software.

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Oracle’s suit challenging how the Pentagon awarded its now canceled $10 billion cloud computing contract.

Amazon had previously protested the Defense Department's decision to award a now-defunct $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing contract to Microsoft.

With a long legal battle over JEDI on the horizon, it's looking likely that neither Amazon nor Microsoft will walk away with the $10 billion prize.

A fake complaint alleges security concerns with a $10 billion Microsoft cloud deal known as JEDI. Microsoft disputes everything in the complaint and says it was created by an impersonator. Microsoft won the $10 billion Pentagon contract in 2019, but Amazon has claimed it deserves it. Microsoft says a fake complaint about its security over a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract — filed by someone pretending to be a Microsoft employee — is making the rounds among tech workers, reporters, and s...