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Is multi-cloud a sensible strategy for the reasons you think?
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25 January 2023
Annie Turner mulls multi-cloud through the lens of the Pentagon spending up to $9 billion with four cloudcos
The Pentagon put multi-cloud firmly in the spotlight when it awarded contracts collectively worth up to $9 billion for its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) in December. The JWCC is the multi-cloud successor to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) – the IT modernisation project awarded solely to Microsoft Azure in 2019 that was supposed to run for 10 years, The remit was to build a massive, common commercial cloud for the Department of Defense (DoD).
The choice of provider was controversial from the start. AWS started legal proceedings almost immediately, claiming the award was influenced by President Trump’s very public dislike of Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos. Other parties expressed concerns about such a big contract going to a single provider, hence JEDI was officially terminated in July 2022 and a multi-cloud approach taken this time.