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Pentagon he said on Wednesday amazon🇧🇷 Google🇧🇷 Microsoft and priest each received a cloud computing contract that could reach $9 billion each by 2028.
The outcome of the Joint Warfare Cloud Capability, or JWCC, effort is in line with the U.S. Department of Defense’s efforts to rely on multiple providers of remotely operated infrastructure technology, as opposed to relying on a single company, a strategy promoted during the Trump Administration.
A growing number of companies are also looking to rely on more than one cloud provider. In some cases, they rely on specialized capabilities in one and the majority of front-end and back-end workloads in the other. Other times they are get down to value🇧🇷 Having multiple clouds can make organizations more confident that they can withstand service disruptions caused by outages.
First it was the Pentagon awarded It handed over the Joint Venture Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, to Microsoft in 2019. A legal battle began as Amazon, the top player in the cloud infrastructure market, challenged the Pentagon’s decision. priest He protested the Pentagon’s choice good.
In 2020, the Pentagon’s watchdog conducted an investigation and ruled He said there is no evidence that the Trump Administration interfered in the contract award process. Months later, the Pentagon announced JEDI would stick with Microsoft for the deal.
Last year, the Pentagon changed its approach requests suggestions from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle to address your cloud needs. But the General Services Administration said at the time that only Amazon and Microsoft could meet the Pentagon’s demands.
Wednesday’s result is a boon, especially for Oracle, which analysts don’t see in the top tier of cloud-based computing services companies. Oracle is created 900 million dollars in cloud infrastructure revenues in the quarter ended August. 31, a small part a total of $20.5 billion for Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud subsidiary, in the third quarter.
All four technology companies have won indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, or IDIQ contracts, meaning they can provide an indefinite amount of services over a period of time.
“The goal of this contract is to provide the Department of Defense with globally available cloud services across the enterprise across all security domains and classification levels, from the strategic to the tactical level,” he said.
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