Trump reportedly tried to stop Amazon from winning a $10 billion cloud deal, but experts say Microsoft won on its own merits

President Trump has been a vocal critic of Amazon, reportedly going as far as to try and prevent Amazon Web Services from winning the Pentagon's $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract.When Microsoft was awarded the JEDI contract on Friday, many assumed that Trump played some kind of role in the decision, since AWS was seen as the clear front-runner.However, experts say that the Trump factor in the JEDI decision is overrated, and that Microsoft won the deal on its own merits as a strong player in the cloud computing space."They had not only infrastructure that could take on Amazon's but they also had experience working in this legacy IT environment, so it makes sense that the DoD might choose Microsoft," James Bach, a federal spending analyst at Bloomberg LP, told

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