a Amazon Web Services (AWS) won a contract with the National Security Agency (NSA) on Total value 10 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to about R$51 billion in current conversion. The bid refers to the provision of cloud storage services to the US government.
The fact that AWS won the contract created problems among competitors, especially with Microsoft turning to it Government Accountability Office (Government Accountability Office, in Portuguese) to review the decision in order to void the contract for services provided by Amazon.
According to the information, the NSA plans to start testing a project related to hybrid computing soon, migrating some content stored on its local servers to third parties, which is very similar to what we saw some time ago in the dispute over Corporate Defense Shared Infrastructure (JEDI), which had a very similar contract introduced by the Pentagon.
According to an NSA spokesperson, Microsoft claims that the agency’s evaluation process was insufficient when considering a resource for a project with a codename. WildandStormy. The agency is expected to comment in the coming weeks on the accusation leveled by the company.
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