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Amazon’s bid for $10B Pentagon cloud deal faces friction as it battles with Microsoft
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaking at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. in 2018. (Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Photo…
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Report reveals new details about Bezos’ influence on Amazon bid for Pentagon cloud contract
The Metro in Pentagon City. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Amazon’s bid to build the Pentagon’s war cloud has been…
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Microsoft: ‘We are proud that we are an integral partner’ of DoD after winning $10B JEDI contract
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft finally issued a statement after the Department of Defense announced late Friday that…
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Amazon cites Fox News segment, Trump rally in formal protest of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI award
Amazon filed its formal protest over Microsoft’s victory in a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract, citing video proof that…
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Amazon touts ‘technical superiority’ over Microsoft as it seeks to reopen JEDI bidding in newly unsealed court filing
Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent this week in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is asking a federal…
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Amazon calls DoD review of Microsoft JEDI win too narrow, urges sweeping reevaluation of bids
For months Amazon has been pleading with a federal court to order the Department of Defense to review its decision…
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DoD watchdog affirms JEDI award to Microsoft over Amazon, calls bias claims unfounded
The Pentagon. (Flickr Photo / David B. Gleason cc2.0) A new report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found no…
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Dispute between Microsoft and Amazon over JEDI cloud contract is delayed
Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) The protracted saga over a $10 billion Defense Department contract…
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Microsoft slams Amazon’s latest protest over Pentagon cloud contract as ‘a way to avoid the consequences of its own bad business decisions’
Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Amazon is once again challenging the Department of Defense’s decision…
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Podcasts
GeekWire Podcast: Amazon protests JEDI deal; Cortana reads email; Cosmic Crisp first taste
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is formally protesting a choice by the U.S. Division of Protection to award…
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