Jedi: We will continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award
Amazon: &quot;We have the broadest range of services and the most secure and reliable data centers, we meet every technical qualification and then some, why were we not picked.&quot;<p>Government: &quot;All of that is true, but what&#x27;s your managed Active Directory story look like.&quot;<p>Amazon: [bugs chirping] uh [crickets] we have, a, um, active directory service, it, uh [sweating] works [perjury] pretty well.<p>They could argue all day about the technical merits; Amazon can complain about political motivations. I think its all bullshit. The Government is, and always has been, for better or worse, a Microsoft shop. Amazon checks boxes. Microsoft solves problems. Amazon was never going to be able to walk in thirty years into the Federal Government &#x2F; Microsoft relationship and steal this contract.<p>And, frankly, its better this way. The biggest cloud provider doesn&#x27;t need to get bigger.<p>I&#x27;ve got contacts inside Azure who say that many, if not most, teams across <i>the entire org</i> are heads down on JEDI right now. The government invested billions of dollars into Microsoft, but Microsoft is investing right back (and always has for the government). Amazon&#x27;s complaints are going to amount to absolutely nothing; Microsoft knows it, the Federal government knows it, and it seems most people even here know it. So, all this amounts to is a really, really bad look for them; like sore losers who would rather complain about losing out on billions of dollars than fix or improve the myriad of issues customers like Us have with AWS.