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GSA enters $1B OneGov cloud agreement with AWS

| Importance: 7/10

The General Services Administration announced a $1 billion ‘OneGov’ cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services, finalizing the deal in August 2025. This agreement centralizes government cloud services under Amazon, providing up to $1 billion in infrastructure credits and modernization …

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Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale

| Importance: 8/10

By 2023, Amazon Web Services has consolidated its position as the dominant cloud infrastructure provider for the U.S. government, with multi-billion dollar contracts across the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and civilian agencies creating unprecedented government dependence on a …

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Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability

| Importance: 8/10

The Defense Department cancels the controversial $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) cloud computing contract previously awarded to Microsoft in 2019, ending two years of bitter litigation with Amazon Web Services. The Pentagon announces a new multi-vendor procurement approach …

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Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics

| Importance: 8/10

Palantir Technologies and Amazon Web Services announce a formal strategic partnership to optimize Palantir’s Foundry and Gotham platforms for deployment on AWS cloud infrastructure, integrating two of the most powerful surveillance and data analytics systems used by U.S. intelligence and …

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Pentagon Awards $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft Over Amazon

| Importance: 8/10

The Pentagon awards the $10 billion, 10-year Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract to Microsoft, stunning observers who widely expected Amazon Web Services to win based on its established relationship with the intelligence community through the CIA’s C2S contract. Under …

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Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community

| Importance: 9/10

Amazon Web Services unveils a dedicated cloud computing region specifically designed to host classified government data at the “Secret” classification level, serving the CIA and all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. This AWS Secret Region operates as an air-gapped, isolated infrastructure …

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Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract

| Importance: 9/10

Amazon Web Services wins a $600 million contract to build a private cloud computing infrastructure for the Central Intelligence Agency, marking the CIA’s first major cloud computing contract and establishing Amazon as a central infrastructure provider for the U.S. intelligence community. The …

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