According to Nextgov, the US National Security Agency (National Security Agency) has handed over a cloud computing contract to Sina Science and Technology News in the morning of August 11, Beijing time, according to a report by the National Security Agency (NSA).AmazonAWS, which could be worth as much as $10 billion.
But Amazon.Com IncThere are still some questions about whether we can get the order in the end.Microsoft CorpIt submitted documents to the Government Accountability Office (Government Accountability Office) to compete for orders on July 21, just two weeks after the National Security Agency told Microsoft Corp, saying that it has selected AWS.
The National Security Agency is one of the 17 intelligence agencies in the United States. In the past year, US intelligence agencies have provided two huge cloud computing orders. For example, in November last year, CIA handed over the C2E contract to five companies, namely, AWS, Microsoft Corp,Alphabet Inc-CL C、Oracle、IBMWith a total value of about billions of dollars
AWS is Amazon.Com Inc's most profitable department, and industry analysts generally regard it as the leader in the field of cloud computing. It is also the most important cloud computing provider for federal agencies, and its services are used by the US Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. In 2013, AWS signed a $600m contract with CIA to provide services to CIA and its sister intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, through AWS. The Pentagon also handed over cloud computing contracts to companies, such as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) project, in which Microsoft Corp received about twice as many orders as AWS, but the Pentagon cancelled the contract in July after years of litigation.
The Government Accountability Office will make a decision on the protest submitted by Microsoft Corp by October 29th. (Xinghai)