For Amazon's dominant cloud-computing platform AWS, winning a $10 billion contract to overhaul the IT systems of the American military seemed like a walk in the park. Their clear dominance in the field would make Amazon's competitors' for the contract into guaranteed also-rans. This would be a breeze. A layup. A cinch.
Unfortunately, that's not quite how it all went down. And now Amazon is throwing the equivalent of a corporate temper tantrum as it seeks to 'rectify' the DoJ's decision, which it maintains was made for political reasons (given Trump's well-known beef with Washington Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos).
In court documents unsealed on Monday, Amazon revealed that it wants to depose President Trump, Defense Secretary Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis as part of its case protesting the contract.
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