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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.)

Previously:

• Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy
• Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos
• Amazon, Microsoft Wage War Over the Pentagon's "War Cloud"

Original Submission

1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
2. "Amazon wins court injunction on controversial JEDI contract" - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/amazon-wins-court-injunction-on-controversial-jedi-contract/
3. "filed suit against the Trump administration" - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/amazon-sues-dod-claims-trumps-improper-pressure-blocked-cloud-contract-win/
4. "asked the court" - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/amazon-asks-court-to-block-microsofts-10b-contract-with-us-defense-dept/
5. "surprised" - https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surprise-winner-dollar10b-pentagon-contract/
6. "lawsuit" - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/amazon-sues-dod-claims-trumps-improper-pressure-blocked-cloud-contract-win/
7. "Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/12/10/0229255
8. "Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/10/26/0325259
9. "Amazon, Microsoft Wage War Over the Pentagon's "War Cloud"" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/07/10/225228
10. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=39179

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