Microsoft nicks $10bn JEDI Department of Defense cloud contract from AWS

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Amazon 'surprised' to lose out to Microsoft in monolithic military cloud contract

Microsoft has emerged as the winner of a $10 billion tender for a US Department of Defense cloud contract, beating out Amazon, IBM and Oracle in the process. Amazon Web Services (AWS) had been t...

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