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Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by qwertox on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:03PM (#27752902)
Standing on the shoulders of giants.

It would make much more sense to let Microsoft, Amazon or Google to span a new data center and let the government wrap it entirely with their own monitoring and possibly also a specialized access solution.

That way they leverage all the hard work which these US companies have already made, all their expertise, and are able to keep an eye on all of it.

Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by nonfamous on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:17PM (#27753063)
Microsoft and AWS (not sure about GCP) already provide data centers for the exclusive use of the US government and with specialized monitoring and access.
Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by Ericson2314 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:33PM (#27756396)
Microsoft, Amazon or Google are free to open up their IP as needed to fulfill the contract. And they don't even foot the operating cost beyond the initial demo.

Easy money! If they don't mind their mote being filled, that is...