- Published on July 14, 2021
- In Global Tech
Pentagon Cancels Controversial JEDI Project, Ending The Amazon-Microsoft Tug-Of-War
- By Ritika Sagar
In light of the legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft's claims to the $10 billion cloud deal, the USA's Department of Defense called off the contract putting an end to the ongoing dispute.
The Joint Enterprise Defense (JEDI) cloud contract was to be handed out to a private player for revamping and modernising Pentagon's IT operations. According to analysts, the company getting approval could wear it as a badge of honour, use the good name, and add credibility to secure plum private and public deals.
In 2019, after a two-year-long deliberation process that involved players like Google, IBM, Oracle, and Amazon competing, the Department of Defense (DOD) (under the then President Donald Trump) announced that the contract would be handed over to Microsoft; this despite Amazon being
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Ritika Sagar
Ritika Sagar is currently pursuing PDG in Journalism from St. Xavier's, Mumbai. She is a journalist in the making who spends her time playing video games and analyzing the developments in the tech world.
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