Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle To Share A $9B Hybrid Contract To Offer Secure Cloud Services

Microsoft Corp, Google of Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Oracle Corp., are going to share a hybrid contract of up to nine billion dollars. The contract would offer safe cloud services across the globe for Pentagon, as claimed by the Department of Defense.

With cloud services, these firms establish worldwide computing networks to store information over the internet rather than on ordinary computer systems.

JEDI’s Successor ‘JWCC’ Sparks a Competition among Top Tech Players

In the regular contract declarations of the Pentagon, Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Oracle (ORCL), and Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL), were named together in this respect.

4 letters, which were sent to the above-mentioned platforms, have ignited another cloud competition among the prominent players in the tech industry. After the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), JWCC comes as its descendent.

It has started conflicts among these companies as well as the International Business Machines Corp. while the contract is additionally complicated and stakes are considerably higher. The platforms will mutually operate to offer the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) to the Defense Department.

The respective project will be accomplished in the coming years by the 8th of June of 2028 in Reston, Va. Another name specified for the JWCC is the “return of JEDI.”

The JEDI had the position of a defense contract of the Pentagon established for only one vendor. As a result, a controversial award in 2019 went to Microsoft but was canceled after that in July.

Even though the government canceled the respective award in July, the controversy went on and did not end until a couple of months back. The battle for JEDI had been fought for years and swift change took place in the approach of the Defense Department.

The agency consequently moved toward the multi-cloud model including more vendors. The new project would expectedly play the role of the backbone for the modern war activities of the Pentagon. This will be majorly dependent on the anonymous space and aircraft communication satellites.

Nevertheless, there will still be a requirement for a way to rapidly receive intelligence from the respective firms to the on-ground troops. According to the reports, the agency would award the contract in parts.

It is noteworthy that International Business Machines Corp. is a prominent tech platform that is not a part of the respective contract.

The company offers hybrid cloud services and, on Wednesday, it declared its 8th acquisition this year in the case of its consulting business “Reston, Va.-based Octo.” It deals with federal institutions to offer them the services specified for digital modernization.

In the current year, a 34% decline has been witnessed in the shares of Alphabet while Amazon faced a straight 46.9% drop in the same period. On the other hand, the failure of Microsoft equaled 27.3%. Nonetheless, Oracle has gone through a relatively less drop of nearly 9.7%. Apart from these platforms, other organizations have shown mixed outcomes.

IBM Proves to Be an Outlier with 10% Gains But Gets No Share in the Contract

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is almost 7.5% low. S&P 500 Index saw a 17.5% decline and the tech giant Nasdaq Composite Index attracted a failure of 30%. IBM has proved to be a tech outlier during the present year as it remained successful in gaining an annual profit of more than 10%.