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Amazon charges ‘bias’ in Pentagon cloud contract
2019-11-16
There can't be a connection between constant attacks by Bezo's Washington Post on non-Antifa government and Bezo's Amazon contacts?
[Asia Times] Amazon on Thursday challenged the awarding of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, alleging “unmistakable bias” in the process.

The 10-year contract for theJoint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program, better known as JEDI, ultimately will see all military branches sharing information in a system boosted by artificial intelligence.

“It’s critical for our country that the government and its elected leaders administer procurements objectively and in a manner that is free from political influence,” a spokesperson for Amazon Web Services said.
Like Bezo's Wapo is free of political influence?
Posted by:3dc

#9  Amazon's business model is based on illegal predatory pricing.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-16 17:39  

#8  An unmentioned part of all this is that Amazon is currently under investigation for various anti-trust violations, while Microsoft is not... at least not anymore. The federal government could easily have chosen not to place a bid with a company whose activities are under active investigation.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick   2019-11-16 17:37  

#7  Microsoft are more professional than any slacks and spectacles bunch of techno yuppies out there. For decades they've produced reliable, feasible software solutions and support to most govts the world over.

Amazon is run by lickspittle political hacks, it could be populated by an unknown number of unhinged elements from the left. What happens when a 'concerned' systems admin goes woke and halts a critical launch, throws a spanner into target acquisition networks, if someone from the company holds the network to ransom over secret info, leaks info to the MSM...
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-16 15:43  

#6  Hobson's choice.
Posted by: charger   2019-11-16 14:32  

#5  Oligarchs 'R' Us.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-16 09:08  

#4  And when Chinese hack the system?

It's Microsoft.
They built it.
Don't have to hack it.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-11-16 09:03  

#3  Couldn't pass the security background checks anyways. Too much stuff already made in China.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-11-16 07:09  

#2  Better the chinese have to go to the effort of hacking it.

Bezos would probably give antifa sys-admin rights.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-11-16 06:05  

#1  all military branches sharing information in a system boosted by artificial intelligence

And when Chinese hack the system?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-11-16 01:54  

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