With $ 10 billion, the Pentagon relies on Microsoft for cloud computing services. A slap that the Trump administration wanted to give to Amazon which, sure of the order, was already working on the project, had also bought premises and apartments near the Pentagon.

The hostility between Donald Trump and the king of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, seems to have won this time. Amazon controls 40% of e-commerce, selling 6 million items per second. AWS, the vision of web services, controls over half of the US cloud computing market: institutions, large companies such as Unilever and General Electric and even the CIA, entrust their data to Amazon servers. In 2013, the CIA decides to entrust its intelligence data to Amazon's cloud services: a $ 600 million contract. Since then, Amazon's lobbying spending in Washington has increased by 470 percent. In 2017 Bezos joined the Defense Department's advisory panel on technology. In the fall of the same year the Pentagon announces the Jedi project, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure. Plan to migrate all Defense data to a centralized "cloud", so as to be able to use artificial intelligence more easily and communicate even from distant battlefields.

The Pentagon's Jedi project dates back to the days of the Obama administration. Last July Trump announced an internal investigation into the tender for Jedi, saying he had received complaints from Amazon's competitors. In the end, Microsoft won the billionaire order, which is growing strongly due to the strategy of its CEO, Satya Nadella, who three years ago, writes the Sole24Ore, bet on Azure, its cloud division (+ 36% growth for 11,6 , XNUMX billion in the last quarterly just published, before the announcement of the Pentagon). In the defense note that followed the announcement it is specified that the tender was carried out according to the laws. All competitors were assessed fairly.