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Pentagon: $10B cloud contract that snubbed Amazon was legal

by AP National Security Writer
| April 16, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's process for awarding a highly lucrative cloud computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon was in line with legal and government purchasing standards, a government watchdog agency said Wednesday.

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