The Pentagon has given its multi-billion dollar cloud computing contract to all the big competitors — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle — that may total up to $9 billion through 2028, putting an end to the heated cloud battle.

Through the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), mission owners will be able to purchase authorised commercial cloud products directly from the companies who won the contracts for Cloud Service Providers. The Pentagon last year unveiled a new cloud project to replace the doomed JEDI contract, which saw a heated battle over its $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) Cloud computing contract.

In 2019, Microsoft was awarded a $10 billion JEDI contract by the Pentagon, eliminating Amazon, the front-runner, from the competition during the Donald Trump administration.

For the JWCC Cloud contract, all cloud industry goliaths like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle were invited to submit bids. The Pentagon had stated in a statement in November of last year that it intended to award contracts to 'all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) that demonstrate the capability to meet DoD's requirements.'

 The government anticipated awarding two contracts, one to Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) and one to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Pentagon's IT operations were to be modernised as part of the JEDI contract for services provided over a ten-year period. AWS had submitted a bid protest to DoD, contesting the selection, after Microsoft was given the ten-year contract in October 2019.

As a result of unreasonable pressure from former US President Donald Trump, Amazon felt the reevaluation process to be seriously faulty. According to the deal release, the separate contracts, which have a notional top line of $9 billion and are valid through 2028, would offer the Department of Defense enterprise-wide, globally accessible cloud services across all security domains and classification levels.

U.S. A spokesman for the Department of Defense named Navy Commander Jessica McNulty claimed in a statement that the JWCC was a multiple-award procurement made up of four contracts with a combined total of $9 billion.