{"id":41659,"date":"2020-12-16T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T10:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=b0f1ed768ec389764bab7737ce97121c"},"modified":"2020-12-16T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T10:54:52","slug":"aws-slams-microsofts-politically-corrupt-jedi-win-in-new-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-slams-microsofts-politically-corrupt-jedi-win-in-new-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS slams Microsoft’s “politically corrupt” JEDI win in new complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span>
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16 Dec, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has urged a US judge to halt the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI contract and assess the remaining issues with\u00a0Microsoft’s winning bid<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a redacted court filing from October, the cloud giant said that the award must be “invalidated” as it was “the product of systematic bias” and a “flawed and politically corrupted decision”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AWS has again accused Donald Trump of exerting “undue influence”. The US President reportedly said “screw Amazon<\/a>” when discussing the bidding process, allegedly due to an ongoing spat with the company’s founder Jeff Bezos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nThe cloud migration project was awarded to Microsoft in October 2019, but the Redmond-based tech giant\u00a0hasn’t yet been able to begin its work due to legal challenges brought by AWS. Of all of the issues the cloud giant cited, a US court only found a problem with a\u00a0pricing scenario quoted by Microsoft<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In September the Department of Defence (DoD) said a court-ordered reevaluation determined that Microsoft’s proposal still represented the best value for the government, which AWS now claims is incorrect. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“After the Court rejected the flawed initial JEDI evaluation, the DoD spent over four months attempting to revive Microsoft’s non-compliant bid and reaffirm that flawed and politically-biased decision,” an AWS spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“As a result of the DoD fixing just one of many errors, the pricing differential swung substantially, with AWS now the lowest-priced bid by tens of millions of dollars.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cloud giant’s argument is that the one issue the DoD did fix caused a “substantial” change, in this case making Amazon’s bid more cost-effective. As such, it is pushing for a reevaluation of the “errors that remain unaddressed”. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We had made clear that unless the DoD addressed all of the defects in its initial decision, we would continue to pursue a fair and objective review, and that’s exactly where we find ourselves today,” the spokesperson added. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Microsoft did not immediately respond to CloudPro’s<\/em>\u00a0request for comment.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n

16 Dec, 2020 <\/p>\n

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has urged a US judge to halt the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI contract and assess the remaining issues with\u00a0Microsoft’s winning bid.\u00a0
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