Microsoft bags $10bn Pentagon contract for JEDI ‘war cloud’ project, edging out presumed frontrunner Amazon

After months of wrangling over the bidding process, tech giant Microsoft has landed the job to develop the Pentagon’s multi-billion dollar “war cloud” storage system, a contract many assumed would go to Amazon.

Dubbed JEDI for short, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project has been in the works since November 2017, and sets out to revamp the Pentagon’s computer storage system, upgrading to a remote “cloud” setup. It’s not hard to see why tech firms have jumped at the opportunity to land the decade-long contract, however, worth a hefty $10 billion.

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