{"id":9099,"date":"2013-10-08T23:29:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/oct\/09\/amazon-v-ibm-cia-cloud-contract-judge-rules-favour-aws\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T23:29:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:29:15","slug":"amazon-v-ibm-cia-cloud-contract-judge-rules-in-favour-of-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-v-ibm-cia-cloud-contract-judge-rules-in-favour-of-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon v IBM CIA cloud contract: Judge rules in favour of AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM&rsquo;s bid to derail Amazon&rsquo;s awarding of a lucrative $600m CIA cloud computing contract has been rebuffed after a federal judge ruled in favour of Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling from Judge Thomas Wheeler, which was posted on PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) earlier this week, puts to an end &ndash; in theory anyway, IBM can of course still appeal &ndash; a saga which has been played out in courtrooms and behind closed doors throughout the summer.<\/p>\n<p>For Jeff Bezos and company, it will certainly appear that justice has been served, after the original contract was handed to Amazon only for IBM to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Big Blue&rsquo;s reasons at the time were straightforward enough; Amazon&rsquo;s proposal was $50m a year more expensive, and the procedures used to rank Amazon&rsquo;s proposal as being technically superior were wide of the mark, IBM claimed.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the Government Accountability Office &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM&rsquo;s bid to derail Amazon&rsquo;s awarding of a lucrative $600m CIA cloud computing contract has been rebuffed after a federal judge ruled in favour of Amazon.<br \/>\nThe ruling from Judge Thomas Wheeler, which was posted on PACER (Public Access to Cou&#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-9099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099","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=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}