GeekWire | Microsoft awarded Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract in huge win over rival Amazon

The Pentagon. (Flickr Photo / David B. Gleason. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)

The Department of Defense announced Friday it is awarding the coveted $10 billion, 10-year contract to build the military's war cloud to Microsoft.

It's a huge win for Microsoft over Amazon, which had been long been seen as a frontrunner for the JEDI Cloud contract that will migrate the Pentagon's computing infrastructure and data to the cloud.

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