Amazon tells Judge that Microsoft should never be a JEDI

Stefan Mileschin · 18th December 2020, 05:33

It is the Jar Jar Binks of the cloud

Amazon.com urged a US judge to toss out the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract award after the Defense Department said in September a court-ordered re-evaluation had determined Microsoft Corp’s proposal still represented the best value for the government.

The company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit said in a redacted Oct. 23 court filing unsealed on that the award to Microsoft must “be invalidated because it is the product of systematic bias, bad faith, and undue influence exerted by President Trump to steer the award away from” the company. It called it a “flawed and politically corrupted decision.”

Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday “career procurement officials at the DoD decided that given the superior technical advantages and overall value, we continued to offer the best solution.”

It added “it is time we moved on and got this technology in the hands of those who urgently need it: the women and men who protect our nation.”

https://fudzilla.com/news/52068-amaz...ever-be-a-jedi

18th December 2020, 05:33	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,575	Amazon tells Judge that Microsoft should never be a JEDI It is the Jar Jar Binks of the cloud Amazon.com urged a US judge to toss out the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract award after the Defense Department said in September a court-ordered re-evaluation had determined Microsoft Corp’s proposal still represented the best value for the government. The company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit said in a redacted Oct. 23 court filing unsealed on that the award to Microsoft must “be invalidated because it is the product of systematic bias, bad faith, and undue influence exerted by President Trump to steer the award away from” the company. It called it a “flawed and politically corrupted decision.” Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday “career procurement officials at the DoD decided that given the superior technical advantages and overall value, we continued to offer the best solution.” It added “it is time we moved on and got this technology in the hands of those who urgently need it: the women and men who protect our nation.” https://fudzilla.com/news/52068-amaz...ever-be-a-jedi

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