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NSA Re-Awards $10B Cloud Computing Contract to AWS
- kavehkhorram 4y agoUnsurprising - AWS has been the front-runner for a while now. They have been aggressively marketing their capabilities to the US government and are well-positioned to win this type of contract. Whoever wins these contracts, I hope that taxpayers get a good deal - not that we have much choice in the matter. For example, my company, Usage.AI, cuts AWS bills by up to 57% using Reserved Instances, but without any lock-in. At the scale of $10 billion, every percentage point cut is worth $100 million. With the average business wasting 35% on their AWS bill, that's $3.5 billion of potential savings that could be going back into the taxpayer's pockets (https://www.flexera.com/blog/cloud/aws-costs-how-much-are-you-wasting https://www.flexera.com/blog/cloud/aws-costs-how-much-are-yo...). But I digress. AWS is clearly the leader in cloud computing, and they have been for some time. They have made significant investments in their infrastructure and their team, and it shows.
- mc4ndr3 5y agoBreak up Bezos. He shan't own a newspaper and a bazaar and a post office and a repository of dirt on American citizens.