If nothing, this will prevent AWS pulling out much further ahead in the cloud computing space.
Wondering if its Jeff Bezos v. Trump or the Office 365 possibility that did it (my bet is on O365)
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven’t done any research but I wonder if trump has it in for Amazon since they have a monopoly that so far hasn’t been challenged much.
> I wonder if trump has it in for Amazon since they have a monopoly that so far hasn’t been challenged much. Trump rather openly has it in for Jeff Bezos because of the existence of WaPo, which has spilled over into attacks on Amazon more than once before.
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#33The key point in the briefing (and the “developing” article is fairly brief) is that Amazon was considered the front-runner for contract, but Trump has a personal vendetta against Amazon/Bezos and also made comments that he’d get personally involved in the JEDI decision (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure). So of course this invites the question of whether petty politics influenced a $10B govt deal.
If Amazon losing this deal makes US oligarchs think twice about getting involved in politics, it's probably a good thing.
Isn't the Washington Post(and in turn Bezos) that Trump has an issue?
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#34There’s not much to the article right now (developing story), but how big of a blow is this to Amazon? And how big of a boon to Microsoft? I realize that this is likely because of the people that I surround myself with, but I don’t know anybody who actually uses Azure. Is Azure’s core business large corporations/government?
Azure is a little under 1/2 the size of AWS in terms of revenue, and growing a little faster.
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#35Owning Post seems to cost Bezos quite a fortune.
Just speculation, but I'm thinking, just like with New York, Bezos and Amazon are happy to be rid of JEDI. Too much politics for 10 bill in revenue easily made up elsewhere in the world.
They just seemed to let go of New York and JEDI wayyy too easily for being one of the wealthiest companies in the world. When someone like that bows out of such large projects so easily, something's off. And I have to take it at face value that they maybe just want revenue and not politics. Because no other reasons seem to present themselves here.
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#36Since the early 2000s, Microsoft has done a significant amount of work for the NSA. AWS has had GovCloud, and it is true the CIA uses AWS, but MSFT has built out quite well some of the more exotic requests of the NSA. The crown jewel of the NSA’s MSFT partnership is the San Antonio, Texas data center. The “5150 Rogers Road” data center was chosen because Texas has cheap electricity, which is an enormous cost outlay f…
the entire IC uses AWS. They have their own private AWS.
Re: Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
#37Since the early 2000s, Microsoft has done a significant amount of work for the NSA. AWS has had GovCloud, and it is true the CIA uses AWS, but MSFT has built out quite well some of the more exotic requests of the NSA. The crown jewel of the NSA’s MSFT partnership is the San Antonio, Texas data center. The “5150 Rogers Road” data center was chosen because Texas has cheap electricity, which is an enormous cost outlay f…
> Texas has a separate electrical grid from the rest of the US.
This is interesting. The Wikipedia article has this gem:
"The Texas Interconnection is maintained as a separate grid for political, rather than technical reasons"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/08/why-texas-has-it...
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#38Since the early 2000s, Microsoft has done a significant amount of work for the NSA. AWS has had GovCloud, and it is true the CIA uses AWS, but MSFT has built out quite well some of the more exotic requests of the NSA. The crown jewel of the NSA’s MSFT partnership is the San Antonio, Texas data center. The “5150 Rogers Road” data center was chosen because Texas has cheap electricity, which is an enormous cost outlay f…
The electrical grid is one of the more subtle, but critically important points I hadn't considered.
I think the DoD's decades long reliance on AD and Windows in general gave MSFT a pretty huge advantage as well. Imagine trying to shift away from that Windows only world in any meaningful way in an organization and bureaucracy of that size. What a nightmare.
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#39I wonder how azure employees feel about this.
Probably amazing, while a small minority of the triggered will get all the news time as usual.
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#40Article is pay only.
Is it? After you hit your number of free articles for the month, then yes.