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Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
The point isn't the data centers. The DoD has data centers, and could build more. The point is taking advantage of cloud-native technology to gain an edge. You can throw all the servers in the universe together, and it won't give you out-of-the-box AI or ML toolkits, or hosted Kubernetes solutions. The point is leveraging the expertise that GCP/AWS/Azure have already poured into the cloud. There are a lot of people w…
Google won the contract, not Amazon.
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
Because those companies already hired too many of the best engineers? I don’t mean that to be flippant. I’m under the impression that these orgs hire to some extent with the intention to make a scarce resource less available to others. Seems like a tough bidding war for the DOD to enter.
So a single digit Million contract? How is that news at Google scale?
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
If I had to guess, it is because the working culture of public organizations (often a lack of motivation/incentive due to lack of competition), combined with tenure-based job security, and artificial constraints (pay structures/levels that don't align with the competitive market) mean that someone like the DoD can't really get something like this done. They wouldn't be able to hire the right talent. If they did hire…
>> However, today the company announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a big win for the cloud unit and CEO Thomas Kurian. So a single digit Million contract? How is that news at Google scale?
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
It was well known that at the JEDI bidding, GCP's offering is vastly behind MSFT and AWS. Note that that does not necessary contradict the original decision to withdraw based on conflicting AI principle. Edit: A few things GCP is behind at the time: * Very weak support team * Very weak sales team * Very weak past track record * Very poor market recognition * Very limited experience in government contracting Offering…
>> However, today the company announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a big win for the cloud unit and CEO Thomas Kurian. So a single digit Million contract? How is that news at Google scale?
It’s a little interesting because they backed out of the Jedi contract earlier for ethical concerns.