Amazon sues Pentagon over lost JEDI contract, blaming Trump bias

President Donald Trump and e-commerce site Amazon have a longstanding feud that usually amounts to a lot of bluster, but now Amazon thinks the president's bias against the company is getting in the way of its business deals.

Amazon filed a suit against the Pentagon on Friday after the U.S. Department of Defense awarded Microsoft a whopping $10 billion contract for a data management project called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. The military contract was awarded in October.

Amazon Web Services cloud computing was up against Microsoft's Azure for the deal. Trump strangely jumped into the fray earlier in 2019 and continued to bring up his criticisms of the nearly $1 trillion company and dislike of billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Read more...