Microsoft's $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract win is a clear sign it's in the same league as Amazon Web Services, but experts say the fight isn't finished yet
when the Pentagon late Friday evening announced the Redmond-based company as the winner of a controversial $10 billion cloud computing contract.
And if Microsoft can pull this off and show the Pentagon, and the world, that it can handle JEDI, it could have major ramifications for the company in its fight with Amazon in the cloud. Oppenheimer analysts in a research note said Microsoft helped make it case by improving securities and seeking out government business.
"If this is they're way of saying, 'We want to get into this business,' they're putting a lot of money into this. It takes a lot of money and effort to get it done," Murphy said. puts Amazon's cloud market share at about 48 percent, more than three times the size of Microsoft Azure's 15.5 percent.
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