The embrace of cloud as an enabler of DevSecOps and cybersecurity more broadly represents an evolution in agencies' approach to the technology.

The DOD will look to issue multiple direct awards with cloud service providers and will immediately seek proposals from JEDI-winner Microsoft and its main competitor Amazon.

AWS also says that it understands and agrees with the government's decision to scrap the contract.

The Pentagon has announced a new direction for its enterprise cloud effort called the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-cloud, multi-vendor contract.

The tech company is hoping to reverse an earlier decision of an appeals court.

In a court brief Amazon says arguments over potential conflicts of interest are moot because Oracle did not satisfy gateway criteria for the cloud contract.