What you need to know
- In 2021, Microsoft's JEDI cloud contract with the U.S. government died.
- A contributing factor to JEDI's demise may have been Amazon's extensive legal efforts protesting the contract's awarding procedure.
- Now, Microsoft is reversing the situation by protesting an Amazon cloud contract awarded by the NSA.
- The tech giant's protest has been sustained.
For those of you who keep up on Microsoft's Azure activities, you know its cloud contracts are a big deal for the company. As such, when Microsoft's
Pentagon-awarded JEDI cloud contract got dissolved, it was a less-than-ideal situation for the company. Doubly so as, based on the timing of JEDI's termination, the decision seemed to have come in part due to
Amazon's lengthy legal battle with the U.S. government over the deal's awarding procedure and potential Trump administration interference.
Now, Microsoft's pulling something of an Uno reverse card with a complaint about the NSA awarding a cloud contract to Amazon. Not only that, but the protest has been officially sustained by the
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
There's no telling how long of an ordeal could materialize from Microsoft's protest. For reference, the JEDI battle lasted roughly two years.
