Amazon blames Trump pressure for loss of $10bn Jedi cloud deal
Amazon Web Services’s lawsuit claims US President Donald Trump targeted ‘political enemy’ Jeff Bezos
10 December 2019 - 00:02
Washington — Amazon.com claims the Pentagon failed to fairly judge its bid for a cloud contract worth up to $10bn because President Donald Trump viewed company founder Jeff Bezos as his “political enemy”.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud unit, claimed in a lawsuit that was made public on Monday that the defence department ignored Amazon’s superior technology and awarded the contract to Microsoft despite its “key failures” to comply with requirements for the so-called Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or Jedi, contract...
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