US government decides single-vendor public cloud contracts are a bad idea

The US Department of Defense has decided to cancel its $10 billion cloud contract with Microsoft because it reckons it no longer meets its needs.
It took years for the DoD to pick Microsoft for the deal, a decision that seemed to be influenced by then President Trump’s intervention to make sure AWS didn’t get any of the action. There was suspicion that the move was influenced by Trump’s personal dislike of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post new