The fight by Microsoft and Amazon for the Pentagon’s cloud contract By Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department dealt a blow to Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) on Tuesday when the Pentagon announced it was scrapping the Trump-era award of a $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing project. The government will hold a new round of bids and allow multiple companies to compete, including rival Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN). In November 2019, Microsoft beat favorite Amazon for the contract, called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, which is part of a broad modernization of the Pentagon's information technology systems. Here is a timeline of important dates leading...
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