It’s the identical previous story: Government fingers out a multi-billion contract to at least one tech large, solely to see one other tech large complain in regards to the course of. But no sooner had we put the JEDI contract out of our minds and Amazon and Microsoft are, as soon as once more, at one another’s throats. Washington Technology, (by way of The Verge) reviews that Microsoft has filed a grievance after the NSA awarded a $10 billion contract to Amazon Web Services. The venture, codenamed WildAndStormy, of which particulars aren’t broadly obtainable, however apparently entails the availability of cloud computing expertise to the broader intelligence group.

Microsoft has lodged a grievance with the Government Accountability Office, reportedly claiming that AWS’ product was not correctly evaluated. The Windows large feels that in a side-by-side comparability of its tech versus that of Amazon’s, it could win, and feels the method right here wasn’t particularly reasonable. The GAO has till October twenty ninth to answer Microsoft’s grievance, and it’s possible that this is not going to be the top of the pair’s battle of digital attrition. As reported by NextGov, an NSA spokesperson mentioned that any response shall be “in accordance with appropriate federal regulations.”