(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Jeff Bezos' Amazon was competing recently with Microsoft for a $10 billion contract from the U.S. Dept. of Defense, and Microsoft got the deal in November.
They will build out cloud infrastructure for the Pentagon over ten years under the project name, "Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure" (JEDI).
Unlike Google, Microsoft will do business with America's military. Their CEO puts it this way: "We made a principled decision that we’re not going to withhold technology from institutions that we have elected in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy.”
In Bezos' words, "“I know it’s complicated, but do you want a strong national defense or don’t you . . I think you do, so we have to support that.” He says (video below) that the U.S. Military has earned the trust and respect of Americans by doing hard things well for decades.
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