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Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 10 2019, @11:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the sour-grapes? dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Why was Amazon heading to court to challenge the US Department of Defense's decision to award its $10bn winner-takes-all JEDI IT project to Microsoft rather than to, well, AWS?

“We’re in the middle of an act of litigation so there’s a limited amount I can say about it, but … we feel pretty strongly that it was not adjudicated fairly,” said Jassy. “If you do a truly objective and detailed apples to apples comparison of the platforms you don’t end up in the spot where that decision was made.

“Most of our customers tell us that we’re a couple of years ahead both with regard to functionality and maturity. I think we ended up with a situation where there was significant political interference.” Jassy claimed that having “a sitting president who’s willing to share openly his disdain for a company,” namely the Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon, makes it “really difficult for government agencies including the DoD to make an objective decision without fear of reprisal.”

Bezos also owns The Washington Post, which has drawn Trump's ire in the past, as well as Amazon.

Does Jassy have a point or is this just sour grapes?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @02:36AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @02:36AM (#930921)

    Very recent performance comparison of VPS providers. Money quote, "I didn't think it was possible to get slower than Amazon Lightsail's disk IO, but Azure managed to somehow."
    https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing [lerdorf.com]

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    MS has orders of magnitude worse uptime than the next worst uptime:

    Based on the vendors own reported numbers, from the beginning of 2018 through May 3, 2019, AWS leads the pack with only 338 hours of downtime, followed by GCP closely at 361. Microsoft Azure has a whopping total of 1,934 hours of self-reported downtime.

    https://www.networkworld.com/article/3394341/when-it-comes-to-uptime-not-all-cloud-providers-are-created-equal.html [networkworld.com]
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    And, a personal anecdote. My work uses Google Apps for students, and MS o365 for staff and faculty. We've had no outages of Google Apps in over 10 years. We've had more than 10 outages of o365 in one year.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @03:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @03:48AM (#930946)

    GitLab migrated to Azure in exchange for free hosting and saw immediate, significant decreases in performance and reliability; after the free hosting deal expired they migrated to GCP and saw immediate, significant increases in performance and reliability.