Infographic | February 12, 2020
In its bid to challenge the award of a $10 billion cloud contract by the Pentagon to its biggest rival Microsoft, Amazon is seeking to depose President Trump, a long-time critic of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (who, to Trump's disdain, also owns the Washington Post). Amazon claims that President Trump put "improper pressure" on the Pentagon to prevent Amazon from winning the contract, stating that his bias against Bezos "is a matter of public record". Amazon Web Services, the market leader in cloud computing, was long considered the front runner to win the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, but in October the Department of Defense surprisingly gave it to Microsoft.
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