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NSA Awards Secret $10B Contract to Amazon

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Not to miss - "The contract is already being challenged. Tech giant Microsoft filed a bid protest on July 21 with the Government Accountability Office two weeks after being notified by the NSA that it had selected AWS for the contract."

Sounds like return of the JEDI.

Microsoft is already preparing to be a Phantom Menace

Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post which is known for being the mouthpiece of the national security establishment. Their interests are perfectly aligned.

Is this verifiable? Source?

That's a lot of money.

That's a lot of money.

Nowadays we're becoming numb to seeing billions. Trillions is the new gauge it seems.

I know. Gusto just got a $10 billion valuation today. Indeed, billion is common place now.

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