Microsoft beats AWS – Surprise?
News hit this Friday that AWS lost the much-anticipated JEDI contract award to Microsoft Corporation.
The general sentiment among market watchers and business development specialist was one of surprise and “shock”.
We decided to model this head to head contest between the two cloud giants using our machine learning powered scenario manager.
The result is in line with the announcement showing Microsoft as the favorite for the race.
AWS 48 – Microsoft 52
The system setup was simple. Login with an AWS account, in the solicitation feed locate the DRAFT DOD JEDI Cloud RFP, offered by WHS Acquisitions Directorate. Move it to interested and build a scenario with Microsoft as the competitor.
As a reminder in the spring we also modeled another award that generated a lot of interest on the street. Palantir vs Raytheon ( DGCS-A ). A different setup, similar expectations ( Raytheon win) and similar surprising result.
In FedScore ( Palantir 50.1 – Raytheon 49.9) A competitive race with a slight margin for Palantir.
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