Microsoft lands lucrative Pentagon cloud deal
While Microsoft trails Amazon in the cloud market, executives say it offers customers unique advantages
Washington — Microsoft says it has secured a huge cloud deal with the intelligence community that marks a rapid expansion by the software company into a market led by Amazon. The deal, which the company said on Wednesday was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, allows 17 intelligence agencies and offices to use Microsoft’s Azure Government, a cloud service tailored for federal and local governments, in addition to other products Microsoft already offers, such as its Windows 10 operating system and word-processing programs. The cloud agreement gives Microsoft more power to make its case to the Pentagon as goes up against competitors like Amazon, Oracle and International Business Machines and for the agency’s winner-take-all cloud computing contract for up to 10 years. Amazon Web Services, the leading cloud provider, is widely perceived to be the front-runner for the job. Trust "What this does is it reinforces the fact that we are a solid cloud platform that the federal government c...
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