Amazon Web Services files suit against Microsoft’s Pentagon contract win

Washington: Rattled by the US government’s decision to award prestigious $10 billion Pentagon Cloud project to Microsoft, retail giant Amazon’s Cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) has filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Defence’s move. AWS lost the JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract on October 25 that will provide enterprise-level, commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to support Department of Defence business and mission operations.

US President Donald Trump, who has been a critic of Amazon and Bezos over the company’s tax arrangements, even got involved during the bidding process, saying the government was looking at the contract after “getting enormous complaints” from the competitors. Amazon Web Services filed the lawsuit with the Court of Federal Claims on Friday. The complaint and related filings contain source selection sensitive information, as well as AWS’s proprietary information, trade secrets, and confidential financial information, the public release of which would cause either party severe competitive harm,” Amazon said in its court filing. (IANS)

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