Use: Microsoft awarded 10 billion Cloud contract, beat Amazon

The Pentagon awards Microsoft the $ 10 billion cloud contract. A decision that a slap for Amazon, in pole position to win it until Donald Trump started heavily attacking Jeff Bezos, the patron of the online shopping giant. The Pentagon's decision marks Bezos' black friday between Amazon's disappointing quarterly and the decline in stocks on Wall Street that impoverished him and temporarily made him lose the scrooge of Paperon of the world. Amazon says it is surprised by the Pentagon's decision. And behind the scenes, according to rumors, he has already begun to evaluate the options available to him. Among these, a possible action in which possible Trump interference may be feared.

Relations with the president

The president's dislike for Bezos and the Washington Post, on the other hand, notes: the newspaper often called by the tycoon the Amazon Washington Post. And to make matters worse, Trump ordered federal agencies to cancel subscriptions to the Washington Post and the New York Times, the two enemies of the White House. According to a former Defense Department official, Trump has long wanted to trick Amazon and assign the Jedi contract, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, to another company. An accusation – contained in a book coming out next week – that if it turns out to be true, it would create many problems for the Pentagon and the White House, already accused of using ministries to carry out Trump's personal battles against his alleged enemies. Certainly Trump's repeated attacks against Bezos and Amazon do not dampen the fears that the president has intervened on the Pentagon and indicated who to choose, also taking advantage of the distancing from the contract of Defense Minister Mark Esper. In recent days, Esper has announced that it would have slipped out of the contract assignment process as its son employed by one of the companies that had submitted an offer. For Trump, there is the risk of opening up another difficult front.