Amazon alleges DOD moved JEDI cloud goalposts to accommodate Trump's feud with Bezos

By Justin Doubleday / December 9, 2019 at 12:28 PM
Amazon Web Services is arguing Defense Department officials "took numerous actions to systematically remove" the company's edge in the race to win a massive cloud contract after President Trump publicly criticized Amazon and its chief executive Jeff Bezos. In a redacted complaint filed in the Court of Federal Claims today, lawyers for AWS argue the Pentagon's decision to award the potential 10-year, $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract to Microsoft in October contained "egregious errors." But the errors were...

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