{"id":214,"date":"2021-07-06T20:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2021-07-06T20:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:51:50","slug":"microofts-jedi-contract-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/microofts-jedi-contract-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro$oft\u2019s &#8220;JEDI&#8221; Contract Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am not sure whether this was a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/microsoft-jedi-defense-contract-amazon-51625596606?mod=hp_LEAD_4\" target=\"_blank\">political decision<\/a> or not. What I do know is that Amazon is very happy today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">The U.S. Department of Defense has canceled a planned 10-year, $10 billion cloud-computing contract known as JEDI that had been awarded to Microsoft in 2019, while launching plans for a new multivendor cloud-computing project that will likely be split between Microsoft and Amazon.com. The government said in a statement that \u201cit has become clear that the JEDI Cloud contract, which has long been delayed, no longer meets the requirements to fill the DoD\u2019s capability gaps.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure whether this was a political decision or not. What I do know is that Amazon is very happy today. The U.S. Department of Defense has canceled a planned 10-year, $10 billion cloud-computing contract known as JEDI that had been awarded to Microsoft in 2019, while launching plans for a new multivendor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/microofts-jedi-contract-canceled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Micro$oft\u2019s &#8220;JEDI&#8221; Contract Canceled<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}