This was addressed a bit in a separate article recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/capitalbusiness/pentagon-doubles-down-on-single-cloud-s

This was addressed a bit in a separate article recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/capitalbusiness/pentagon-doubles-down-on-single-cloud-strategy-for-10-billion-contract/2018/08/05/352cfee8-972b-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/capitalbusin... The DoD intends to use multiple cloud providers overall, across multiple projects —- but not within this single contract. The CIA already has a $600M contract with AWS.