Amazon has announced that it plans to sue the US Department of Defense.
Why?
Cause
This is a 10-year contract worth $10 billion.
The main contender for cloud developmentstorage company was considered Amazon. After all, it already has the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, which is used by the CIA and more than 5 thousand government agencies in the United States.
However, a few weeks ago, the Pentagon gave the contract to Microsoft and its cloud service Azure. And Amazon believes the decision was made under political pressure.
"Amazon Web Services has a uniquequalified to meet critical U.S. military needs and remains committed to supporting Department of Defense modernization efforts. We also believe that it is important for our country that the government and its leaders elect administrators objectively and in a manner that is free from political influence,” company representatives say.
Not without US President DonaldTrump, who has been repeatedly criticized by The Washington Post, a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, who is also the head of Amazon. The publication recently wrote, citing a former Pentagon employee, that the president wanted to besiege the head of Amazon by closing the company's opportunity to participate in JEDI.
By the way, Google and IBM also competed for the contractand Oracle. The first company dropped out of the race last year due to criticism from its own employees, while the other two dropped out in the early stages. However, both IBM and Oracle were unhappy with the choice of contractor, and Oracle even filed a lawsuit, claiming that Amazon had an unfair advantage due to its connections in the Pentagon.
Microsoft has not yet commented on the contract issue. A Pentagon spokesman said he would not speculate on a possible lawsuit.
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