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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?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday December 11 2019, @04:54AM
I think the thing is that when everything's working well, using remote services is a lot better.
The problems only show up when you're ... hmm. "under fire" doesn't work for the Navy or the Air Force. Both of them encounter problems without being under fire. Like a cruiser that needs to reboot in the middle of moving through a harbor. Not sure about the army, though. They don't fall out of the sky or have their guidance systems freeze. So perhaps for them it's only when actually under fire...or at least out in the field.
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