2021-08-11
Context: The effort appears to be geared to modernizing the NSA's primary data repositories and would effectively move the NSA's crown jewel intelligence data from its own servers to servers operated by a commercial cloud provider. The reason? They need more scalability.
Nextgov
Source: the NSA awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS; Microsoft has filed a bid protest with the GAO in response
Much of the NSA's most prized intelligence data may be moving to the cloud. — The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth …
New: The @NSAGov last month awarded a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Amazon Web Services; it's under protest by rival Microsoft. That's two multi-billion cloud contracts awarded by U.S. intelligence agencies in the last year. https://www.nextgov.com/... via @Nextgov
Nextgov
Source: the NSA awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS; Microsoft has filed a bid protest with the GAO in response
Much of the NSA's most prized intelligence data may be moving to the cloud. — The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth …
2019-11-15
Amazon will protest the Defense Department's JEDI decision, alleging political influence played a role https://www.nextgov.com/... via @nextgov
CNBC
Amazon says it has filed a protest of the Pentagon's decision to award the JEDI contract to Microsoft, claiming “unmistakable bias”, and “errors” in process
- Oracle and IBM were removed from the competition earlier this year, and last month Amazon was knocked out.