Pentagon Terminate The 10 Billion Dollar Deal With Microsoft

Why Did The Pentagon Terminate The 10 Billion Dollar Deal With Microsoft?

The Pentagon has terminated a 10 billion Dollar  cloud computing deal with Microsoft.

 Why Did The Pentagon Terminate The 10 Billion Dollar Deal With Microsoft

According to the French news agency AFP, the Pentagon has stepped aside due to bitterness between Amazon and Microsoft over allegations of political bias.

The US Department of Defense said in a statement that the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Agreement has been canceled because it no longer meets existing requirements and will begin work on a new "multi-cloud, multi-vendor" computing agreement. Microsoft won the deal in late 2019. Amazon said at the time that President Donald Trump's retaliatory policy may have affected the outcome.

Officials say the government will acquire a new state-of-the-art technology instead of advancing the deal.

"JEDI was developed at a time when the department's needs were different, and now we want more than one cloud computing," said John Sherman, a spokesman for the Pentagon.

The Pentagon will seek input from Amazon and Microsoft for a new deal, the Pentagon said in a statement.

The JEDI program was designed 10 years ago. Under the program, information from all military departments was shared on a cloud-based system.

Amazon had alleged that Trump's retaliatory policy against the company and its chief executive had led to its withdrawal from the deal.

Amazon was considered important for JEDI technology. Amazon's web services are at the forefront of cloud computing, and the company is already providing servers to other government agencies, including the CIA.

In the United States, Microsoft President Tony Tones Whitley has said that his company accepts and respects the decision.