Much To Oracle's Chagrin, Pentagon Names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI Cloud Contract Finalists (techcrunch.com)

The Pentagon this week announced two finalists in the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract process -- and Oracle was not one of them. From a report: In spite of lawsuits, official protests and even back-channel complaining to the president, the two finalists are Microsoft and Amazon. "After evaluating all of the proposals received, the Department of Defense has made a competitive range determination for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud request for proposals, in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. The two companies within the competitive range will participate further in the procurement process," Elissa Smith, DoD spokesperson for Public Affairs Operations told TechCrunch. She added that those two finalists were in fact Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS, the cloud computing arm of Amazon).

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A good sign...

[EndlessNameless]

At least the government is capable of making good decisions from time to time.

Amazon and Microsoft are leaders in the cloud industry for a reason.

I'd pity anyone who got stuck with Oracle's service.

Re:A good sign...

[cayenne8]

Why? I've worked with both AWS and Azure, and I'd personally pick Azure as the better service.

Is this just some archaic "MS Bad" shit from the 1990s, or do you have actual facts?

So far it is experience.

First, in our case, it was bad choice to try to move a predominately RHEL system of systems to a MS platform. It just plain isn't as friendly to RHEL as we would like.

If you are a MS shop, likely as not, you would do better in Azure.

So far, in Azure, we've had them basically kick the power cord out from under a BUNCH of systems, even on different availability sets....black out, power down, too most of a morning to come back online.

They fsck up in Azure. That's not supposed to happen.

So far, they are not that responsive.

I don't know as much about AWS, only the shortcomings of MS Azure so far.

We came from a VMWare setup, where you could easily snapshot a VM and restore it if needed. This isn't quite as easy on Azure.

And trying to get a VM custom rigged with the exact CPUs and RAM you need, is impossible, they have pre configured VMs, and you have to choose from them...can't dynamically add RAM or CPU...has to take a whole step up in VM configs they offer. If you need one with only more RAM, you are SOL....it comes with much more CPU too, and of course, much higher monthly $$$'s.

I suppose if you are coming into Azure, with mostly MS windows servers, it would be easier. If you can buy preset items from their 'store' offerings, I supposed it is nice.

But if you are predominately a RHEL outfit..if you depend on Oracle and not MSSQL...if you have a lot of custom apps and server configurations you are moving from a regular data center to Azure cloud, well, it is definitely PAINFUL.

Oh...and often for unexplained reasons....their VMs get really SLOOOOOW...command line take a long time to react even.

And they aren't really good at telling you when they are doing things to the hosts underneath you...and you can find problems with your servers that are hard to track down...till you can find out MS did something under the covers without telling you.

Yeah..its painful.

I've not used AWS yet...but I have to imagine in our case, it would have been a bit more friendly and easy to transition to.

I'm surprised...

[Anonymous Coward]

As much as Trump hates Jeff Bezos, I am surprised that Amazon was even a contender.