The US Department of Defense said Thursday it wants to reconsider its decision to award a multi-billion-dollar military cloud computing contract to Microsoft in a bidding process Amazon claims was tainted by politics.

Pentagon 'wishes to reconsider' awarding JEDI contract to Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com Inc. The contracting process had long been mired in conflict of interest allegations, even drawing the attention of President Donald Trump, who has publicly taken swipes at Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos.

Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract

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Pentagon 'wishes to reconsider' awarding JEDI contract to Microsoft

Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract