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posted by janrinok on Sunday February 16 2020, @07:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-new-hope dept.

Amazon wins court injunction on controversial JEDI contract:

[...] Amazon late last year filed suit against the Trump administration over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud-computing contract. Amazon last month asked the court to grant a temporary injunction halting any JEDI work while the case is pending, and today Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith agreed. Although the existence of the injunction is public, documents relating to the matter are presently sealed.

The JEDI contract is a $10 billion agreement to build a cloud computing and storage platform for use by the entire Department of Defense. Several firms were in the running for the deal, including Oracle and IBM. in April, the DoD dropped the list of finalist candidates to two: Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure. AWS was widely expected to seal the deal, and so industry-watchers were surprised when in October Microsoft nabbed the contract instead.

Amazon filed suit a month later. The company argued that it didn't just lose the contract for ordinary reasons of cost or capability but was instead sabotaged for political reasons. Microsoft's win flowed from "improper pressure from President Donald J. Trump, who launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos," the lawsuit argued. (Bezos is the founder of Amazon and CEO as well as owner of The Washington Post.)

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by c0lo on Sunday February 16 2020, @10:29PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 16 2020, @10:29PM (#958918) Journal

    A 21st century army that pays corporations for its data infrastructure is an army in the hand of the corporations.

    No, it's not.
    Look, any respectable parasite that survived the evolution knows that the fact that you are milking a cow doesn't mean that the cow is in your hand. Taking care about the cow's needs or even the effort to exercise control over the cow will be extremely hurting on the bottom line; why do it when you can simply take the best of it and let the idiotic owners to deal with the rest.

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