Washington | The US Defence Department cancelled its $US10 billion ($13.3 billion) JEDI cloud-computing project on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), reversing the Trump-era award to Microsoft and announcing a new contract expected to include its rival Amazon.com and possibly other cloud players.
The contract was coveted not for its dollar value as much as its prestige: Both companies for years have sought to persuade businesses and governments that it was safe to shift computing work into their data centres.
