{"id":8631,"date":"2013-08-20T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/aug\/21\/ibm-vs-aws-federal-cloud-war-steps-notch-amazon-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:23:09","slug":"ibm-vs-aws-federal-cloud-war-steps-up-a-notch-with-amazon-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-vs-aws-federal-cloud-war-steps-up-a-notch-with-amazon-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM vs AWS federal cloud war steps up a notch with Amazon lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been one of the biggest stories of the summer. The battle for a lucrative CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) cloud computing contract between IBM and Amazon has featured attack, counter-attack, and all manner of legalistic name-calling as the two giants battle out for federal cloud supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the talk has been in the sanctity of legal offices, a lawsuit from Amazon against the Federal Government, made public this week, reveals the true extent of the imbroglio.<\/p>\n<p>The story so far: the CIA initially awarded its $600m private cloud contract to AWS back in Febuary. IBM, not surprisingly, protested against this, as reported by FCW in May.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report examining both sides of the argument and, whilst admitting that Amazon&rsquo;s offer was at the time &ldquo;the best value&rdquo; and a &ldquo;superior technical solution&rdquo;, made the can-of-worm-opening recommendation that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been one of the biggest stories of the summer. The battle for a lucrative CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) cloud computing contract between IBM and Amazon has featured attack, counter-attack, and all manner of legalistic name-calling as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}