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U.S. Navy awards Amazon Web Services contract worth over $700 million

Published 12/19/2022, 06:15 PM
Updated 12/19/2022, 06:20 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Attendees walk through an expo hall at AWS re:Invent 2022, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 30, 2022. Noah Berger/AWS/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) - The United States Navy on Monday awarded Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN)'s cloud computing division a five-year enterprise software license contract worth $723.9 million.

The deal will provide the Navy with access to Amazon Web Services' (AWS) commercial cloud environment, Professional Services and its training and certification courses.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Attendees walk through an expo hall at AWS re:Invent 2022, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 30, 2022. Noah Berger/AWS/Handout via REUTERS

Earlier this month, the Pentagon awarded cloud computing contracts worth $9 billion to Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc's Google, AWS, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) as part of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract.

The Pentagon said work will be performed for a maximum of five years from December this year through 2028.

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