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This Article is From Feb 14, 2020

Amazon Wins Order Suspending $10 Billion Microsoft US Military Contract

A temporary injunction requested by Amazon was issued by US judge Patricia Campbell-Smith, barring the Department of Defense from starting work on the contract known as JEDI, according to a summary of the ruling available online.

Amazon Wins Order Suspending $10 Billion Microsoft US Military Contract
The order in favour of Amazon blocks the US military from awarding a contract to Microsoft.
San Francisco, United States:

A federal judge on Thursday issued an order temporarily blocking the US military from awarding a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract to Microsoft, after Amazon claimed the process was tainted by politics.

A temporary injunction requested by Amazon was issued by US judge Patricia Campbell-Smith, barring the Department of Defense from starting work on the contract known as JEDI, according to a summary of the ruling available online.

Details of the ruling were sealed for unspecified reasons.

Amazon has alleged it was shut out of the deal because of President Donald Trump's vendetta and is seeking testimony from the president and other top officials on the reasons for awarding the $10 billion US military cloud computing contract.

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