INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft surprised most of the tech and political world when it was awarded a 10-year, $10 billion contract from the U.S
Department of Defense for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project to transform the military use of the cloud
Amazon, IBM, Oracle and Google had all been in the running, with Amazon thought to be the front-runner because it is the world largest cloud
provider and had already built a cloud system for the Central Intelligence Agency.After Microsoft received the contract, plenty of people
expressed the belief that President Trump had intervened to make sure Amazon didn&t win it, pointing to his constant criticism of Amazon
founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post
Fueling the speculation was a book published by a speechwriter for former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, which claimed that Trump wanted to
freeze Amazon out of the contract.
