Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
Well... To be fair, it's an AWS spec sheet reworded as an RFP. Other cloud providers - even Google and Microsoft - can't meet the requirements, because they don't have the same marketing jargon. For example, there's a requirement in the RFP for a "ruggedized" storage product. That's a made up word that Amazon uses to describe AWS Snowball, so no other company satisfies the requirement.Some other AWS-only requirements:* exactly 32gb of RAM. Google promises 30, Azure promises 28. We all know how realistic this isn't.
* 150 miles between data centers. This arbitrary number is exactly what Amazon advertises. Others can manage 100 miles, or 130, but this number comes right out of Amazon's advertising package.Not to mention the idiotic idea of a single provider solution.On the other hand, this is a 10 year contract worth about 1% of Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's bottom line in one year. So there's a bit of mountain/molehill going on here