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Microsoft Expands Azure Cloud Service in Push for $10 Billion Pentagon Contract

Microsoft Expands Azure Cloud Service in Push for $10 Billion Pentagon Contract 6u1m3s

By Reuters | Updated: 10 October 2018 09:44 IST

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Expanded Azure service will be available by the end of Q1 2019: Microsoft
Company is battling with Amazon for a $10 billion Pentagon contract
Google dropped out of the race on Monday

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Amazon.com for a $10 billion (roughly Rs. 74,200 crores) Pentagon contract. 5gx32

The two companies are left in the fray for the lucrative contract after Alphabet's Google dropped out on Monday, saying the company's new ethical guidelines do not align with the project.

Pentagon's JEDI, or t Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, cloud computing solution contract is part of the Department of Defense's efforts to modernise its IT infrastructure.

The expanded Azure Government Secret cloud service will make Microsoft "a strong option for the JEDI contract," said Julia White, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure, adding that the company is capable of meeting the highest classification requirement for handling "top secret US classified data".

© Thomson Reuters 2018

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