After JEDI win, Microsoft pushes Cloud package outside US: Report

San Francisco: After winning a $10 billion Cloud computing contract from the US Department of Defence, Microsoft is now signing deals with governments in other countries for similar offerings, the media reported.
The kind of Cloud service package that Microsoft is offering the US Department of Defence for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, has now attracted the attention of intelligence agencies and militaries outside the US as well, reports CNBC.
Microsoft may even announce a cloud Contract effort designed for governments outside the US later this year, said the report on Friday which cited unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Microsoft started pushing such offerings to foregin governments apparently after the JEDI contract came to a halt after Amazon protested.