Pentagon awards $9 billion cloud contracts each to Google, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft
2022.12.07 18:32
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(Reuters) – The Pentagon on Wednesday awarded cloud computing contracts worth $9 billion each to Alphabet (NASDAQ:) Inc’s Google, Amazon (NASDAQ:) Web Services Inc, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:) and Oracle Corp (NYSE:).
The contracts which run until 2028, will provide the Department of Defense with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud services across all security domains and classification levels.
The move comes months after the Pentagon had delayed its decision to award an enterprise-wide Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract earlier this year.
The deal puts the military more in line with private-sector companies, many of whom split up their cloud computing work among multiple vendors to avoid being locked in to any specific one.
