Amazon Will ‘Continue to Support’ Defense Department, Jeff Bezos Says
- AWS is vying for $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract
- Google dropped out of running following employee protests
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Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said his company "will continue to support" the U.S. Defense Department, drawing a contrast with cloud-services rival Google, which has said it won’t seek some military contracts following protests from its employees.
Amazon Web Services is widely seen as the favorite to win a Pentagon cloud-computing contract worth as much as $10 billion. Alphabet Inc.’s Google last week said it would no longer compete for that work, which involves transitioning massive amounts of Defense Department data to a commercially operated cloud system. Other companies vying for the accord are IBM, Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp.