Amazon leads pack for Pentagon's 10-year, $10 billion cloud data contract
Retailer in 2016 claimed 44.2 percent of the market, three times more than Microsoft, Google, next two competitors combined
President Trump’s favorite corporate punching bag is on the verge of landing a breakthrough 10-year, $10 billion Pentagon contract that would transform how the military shares information.
Analysts and insiders say Amazon is the runaway favorite for the Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud project, which officially opened for bids last week and represents an ambitious effort to bring military data-sharing procedures into the 21st century.
The project has attracted interest across the technology sector, but Amazon seems poised to lap its competition and reportedly is the only company that meets all of the Pentagon’s stiff regulations on handling classified material. Amazon also has a significant edge after securing a prized cloud contract from the CIA in 2013, positioning the Seattle-based behemoth as a company that can be trusted with the most sensitive government information.
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