{"id":3313,"date":"2020-05-10T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T05:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2020-07-23T21:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:45:47","slug":"amazon-and-microsoft-wont-stop-beefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/amazon-and-microsoft-wont-stop-beefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and Microsoft won\u2019t stop beefing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If the saga of the US government\u2019s $10 billion \u2018war cloud\u2019 hadn\u2019t already devolved into a soap opera, the latest tit-for-tat exchange between tech giants Microsoft <\/a>and Amazon proves it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon filed another<\/em> formal protest over its lost bid on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract earlier this week \u2014 an ever-lucrative 10-year deal<\/a> won by Microsoft in 2019 but has since existed only in legal limbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon\u2018s lawyers have consistently challenged that choice, citing alleged interference in the procurement process from none other than US president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say Trump was fueled by bias spawned by negative reports published by the Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Read: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos compete to help NASA return humans to the moon<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the contents of Amazon\u2018s most-recent Hail Mary are confidential. Microsoft exec Frank X. Shaw thinks it\u2019s likely to push for a complete do-over, a move which he lambasted in a fiery blog post titled: \u201cBid high, lose, try again. Amazon continues to push for a JEDI re-do.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe only thing that\u2019s certain about Amazon\u2019s new complaint is that it will force American warfighters to wait even longer for the 21st-century technology they need \u2014 perpetuating Amazon\u2019s record of putting its own interests ahead of theirs,\u201d wrote Shaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmazon alone made the choice to bid high, but now wants to find a way to avoid the consequences of its own bad business decisions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, the Pentagon\u2019s inspector general concluded that the White House hadn\u2019t compromised the JEDI procurement<\/a> process, despite having interviewed officials who\u2019d avoided answering certain questions by citing something called \u201cpresidential communications privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft and Amazon really want those war dollars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Whichever company finally secures the Pentagon\u2019s JEDI contract will provide the Defense Department (DoD) with what is essentially an enterprise cloud computing system \u2014 but for the US war machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, a federal judge granted Amazon\u2019s request<\/a> to block any work on the JEDI system until the related lawsuit plays out in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a ruling on the case is not yet imminent, the Pentagon\u2019s watchdog recently boiled Microsoft\u2019s win down to a matter of pricing; Amazon asked for too much money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft\u2019s Shaw echoed that sentiment by commenting that \u201cno one forced Amazon to bid high in the procurement [process],\u201d before calling upon Amazon to drop the fight and let it provide the US military with the tech it needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard Fork has reached out to Amazon to learn more about its latest protest and will update this piece should we learn more, but something tells me this petty ordeal is far from over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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