Pentagon, Microsoft Ordered To Pause Work On JEDI Cloud While Court Considers Amazon’s Protest

摘要

A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon and Microsoft [MSFT] to pause work on the potential$10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud program while the court considersAmazon’s [AMZN] legal challenge of the contract award.A summary of a sealed opinion filed by a Federal Claims Court judge on Thursday includes astipulation that Amazon Web Services must provide $42 million, to be held until the case isclosed, to cover potential losses associated with the program delay.