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Amazon To Contest Microsoft Scooping $10bn Jedi Contract

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 17 2019, @01:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the Use-The-Courts-Jeff dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Amazon is headed for court to contest the surprise decision to hand Microsoft the $10bn US Department of Defense IT supply contract.

Jeff Bezos' retail-cum-cloud empire alleges that Microsoft won because of "political influence" and "unmistakable bias". The company has also accused the US defence department of failing to run a fair procurement contest for the 10-year single-supplier deal.

Amazon's cloud biz, AWS, was perceived for a long time as the frontrunner in the race to win the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, ahead of Microsoft and Oracle. However, US president Donald Trump's long list of supposed enemies includes the Amazon CEO, mainly because he objects to coverage of the presidency by the Bezos-owned Washington Post.

The cloud giant has not yet filed papers in court, but has informed the US government and Microsoft of its intention to do so.

[...] Microsoft declined to comment.

One question still to be answered is: what will last longer and prove the most expensive? The 10-year, $10bn JEDI contract or the associated court action?

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:11AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:11AM (#921147)

    Will it be all AMD, all Intel, all NVIDIA (unlikely), Intel + NVIDIA, or AMD + NVIDIA?

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  • (Score: 2) by Booga1 on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:47AM (1 child)

    by Booga1 (6333) on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:47AM (#921152)

    AMD would have been out of the running a couple of years ago. However, even Azure offers AMD options now: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-amd-epyc-based-azure-virtual-machines/ [microsoft.com]
    Graphics cards for computational purposes is so situational I am doubtful it will be a large part of this particular contract. Though, who knows? Maybe the government needs more number crunching done.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:59AM (#921156)

      Yes, AMD is winning in all categories now (faster and cheaper with lower power consumption). There is no reason to use Intel besides inertia, but this is the US government which is famous for inertia.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 17 2019, @03:35AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday November 17 2019, @03:35AM (#921171) Journal

    Or AMD + Intel. Lots of chips from both companies.

    Microsoft got slightly custom Zen+ chips for Surface so there's that.

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