 "Microsoft expands Azure cloud service to rival Amazon for $10 bn Pentagon deal")
Microsoft Corp said on 9 October its expanded Azure cloud service to help government clients save data on their own servers would be available by the end of the first quarter of 2019, as it battles with Amazon.com for a $10 billion Pentagon contract. The two companies are left in the fray for the lucrative contract after Alphabet Inc’s
**Google** dropped out on 8 October, saying the company’s new ethical guidelines do not align with the project. [caption id=“attachment_4460349” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Representational image.[/caption] Pentagon’s JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, cloud computing solution contract is part of the Department of Defense’s efforts to modernize 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”.
Google dropped out saying the company’s new ethical guidelines do not align with the project.
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