Amazon Wins Order Suspending $10 Billion Microsoft US Military Contract

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the US military from awarding a $10 billion (roughly Rs. 71,300 crores) cloud computing contract to Microsoft, after Amazon claimed the process was tainted by politics.

A preliminary injunction requested by Amazon was issued by Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith, barring the Department of Defense from starting work on the contract known as JEDI, according to a summary of the ruling.

Details of the ruling were sealed for unspecified reasons.

Amazon has alleged it was shut out of the deal because of President Donald Trump's vendetta against the company and its chief executive Jeff Bezos.