was awarded solely to Microsoft.
DHS released the final solicitation for the contract two weeks ago, and the first round of proposals is due on Thursday, Jan. 28th. Despite the contract being in its early stages, Alex Rossino, a senior principal research analyst at government contracting research firm Deltek, told Insider it would be "a major competition" and the big cloud players have "all been on it already," though he declined to comment on their tactics.
Becoming the new home for DHS data is a huge opportunity: Though the contract is smaller than JEDI, it's a chance for the cloud providers to be part of a federal agency's enormous migration to the cloud, and would likely pay dividends moving forward.
POTUS should go with amazon cloud we learned that Microsoft cloud is an easy target for hackers during previous administration