Agreed, and the majority of the positive press and Azure being seen as being a more then viable alternative has already been done.
AWS won't be able to revert that change in public perception that Azure has grown up.
That's also the reason I don't understand Amazon fighting the decision, because it just makes them look immature now. Better to move on and focus on providing customer value, keep innovating and build better tech.
And its very likely MS will win this and get another ego boost over AWS.
The public perception that Azure is a viable alternative to AWS has been secure long before the JEDI contract was awarded.
> That's also the reason I don't understand Amazon fighting the decision, because it just makes them look immature now.
In a big enough procurement, if you dig deep enough, there is always some impropriety that you can find, that may get you anything from a small payout to the contract being reversed. It's not a matter of maturity, or technical merits - it's a matter of politics and money.
Stop being so hostile (and wrong). The implications of JEDI are far larger than short term revenue. This will set the stage for decades of government cloud work.
This contract would add about $250m in additional each quarter. Their last Q’s revenue was somewhere in the neighborhood of $33b.
Just stop with your nonsense.