Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded $9 billion Pentagon cloud deals

The Pentagon said Wednesday that Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle each received a cloud-computing declaration that tin scope arsenic precocious arsenic $9 cardinal each done 2028.

The result of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, oregon JWCC, effort is successful enactment with the U.S. Defense Department's effort to trust connected aggregate providers of remotely operated infrastructure technology, arsenic opposed to relying connected a azygous company, a strategy promoted during the Trump Administration.

Originally, the Pentagon had awarded the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, oregon JEDI, to Microsoft successful 2019. A ineligible conflict ensued arsenic Amazon, the apical subordinate successful the unreality infrastructure market, challenged the Pentagon's decision. In 2020, the Pentagon announced it would instrumentality with Microsoft for the JEDI deal.

Last twelvemonth the Pentagon changed its approach, asking for bids from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle to code unreality needs. But the General Services Administration stated astatine the clip that lone Amazon and Microsoft seemed to beryllium capable to conscionable the Pentagon's requirements.

Wednesday's effect is simply a boon successful peculiar for Oracle, which analysts don't spot successful the apical tier of companies offering cloud-based computing services. Oracle generated $900 million successful unreality infrastructure gross successful the 4th that ended Aug. 31, a tiny fraction of the $20.5 cardinal total for Amazon's unreality subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, successful the 3rd quarter.

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