Trump reportedly tried to stop Amazon from winning a $10 billion cloud deal, but experts say Microsoft won on its own merits
So when on Friday, the Department of Defense announced that, the immediate reaction of many bystanders was to assume that the huge upset over AWS had everything to do with Trump.
Daniel Newman, founding partner and principal analyst at Futurum Research, told Business Insider that Trump's involvement with the deal does cast questions over the final result. While Microsoft lacked the necessary capabilities to qualify for JEDI at the outset of the bidding process, experts said that the company has made great strides in closing its technology gap with Amazon Web Services — and all the while making itself more attractive to customers in regulated industries like the public sector.
"Politics likely played a key role as AMZN has been under government scrutiny from both the left and right," the Oppenheimer analysts said of the JEDI deal.fending off an ultimately-failed lawsuit from Oracle over the JEDI award process
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