Microsoft chosen by the US Department of Defense to provide $ 10 billion in cloud services

A ten-year supply contract worth $ 10 billion with the Pentagon. There is certainly to celebrate in Microsoft, who beat the competition in the final rush Amazon. In the early stages of the choice, too Oracle and IBM they had participated in the assignment tender. Microsoft will provide the US Department of Defense with infrastructure and cloud services for JEDI – Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure -.

The Azure cloud ecosystem of the Redmond company is the basis for both financial operations and for the Pentagon's operational missions in formula Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is Platform as a Service (PaaS). The contract includes a formula indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity with maximum ceiling of $ 10,000,000,000, if all the options were used. The contract will end on October 24, 2029, again should the Pentagon decide to enforce all the options.
This investment follows the plan National Defense Strategy, which currently requires a modernization of the technical capabilities of the Ministry of Defense to make operations faster and more effective. To respond to NDS requests, the Pentagon has drafted its document DOD (Department of Defense) Digital Modernization Strategy, of which the signing of the contract with Microsoft an important step.
At Amazon they must have remained with a bitter taste in their mouths, as at some point it seemed that AWS could be the designated winner of the race, so much so that Oracle had initially complained that the terms of the contract seemed to be written precisely to favor the Bezos company.
Instead, someone raises the question of how they will get it at Microsoft, since last year some employees had written an open letter to their company explicitly asking not to participate in the tender.