Billions of dollars appear to be in the top US government and military positions as the Pentagon cancels former President Trump's $ 10 billion deal with Microsoft.
The US Department of Defense plan, called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI), has a budget of $10 billion and was part of a broader digital modernization of the Pentagon aimed at making it more technologically agile. The assignment of all requirements security of the US Army to a private cloud company would be a seal of confidence, possibly affecting all other government customers, and take the contractor off the ground.
According to Reuters, the agreement with Microsoft was made during the Trump era, even leaving spikes that the former president had influenced the Pentagon military for their decision. Then the two main rivals were Microsoft and Amazon. The two companies had been trying for years to convince businesses and governments that it was safe to use their services.
Although Amazon was the favorite, the deal was given to Pickupsoft, prompting Amazon to file a complaint against the decision, claiming that the former president exercised improper pressure to military officials to remove the contract from Amazon.
Trump publicly ridiculed then-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and repeatedly criticized the company. Amazon, for its part, said the Pentagon's decision was full of "terrible mistakes" that resulted from "inappropriate pressure from Trump."
However, the shares of both companies closed at a high record.
