Reply to post: Re: Things that might have invalidated MS's bid

They were not the cloud you were looking for, insists Amazon Web Services in unsealed JEDI protest

Ben 5

Re: Things that might have invalidated MS's bid

> A cynical man might assume that "3 DCs for each region" was written into the contract specifically to make it awardable only to AWS.

I thought it was. The initial award was challenged by Oracle because Deap Ubhi, one of the people that worked on defining the contract, previously worked at AWS. He was then again offered a job at AWS, just as the contract was being written and awarded to... AWS.

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