I find the whole idea of a JEDI military cloud dubious. It’s a holdover from the Obama era. And seems like a giant security hole waiting to happen. And when it does, the consequences are likely to make all the past Chinese hacks and Snowden’s work with the Russians look like a day in the park. But at least Amazon failed in its plan to get $10 billion in taxpayer money and control of the military cloud.

The contract has gone to Microsoft over Amazon.

And Redmond is still a lefty company, but it does deny the Washington Post’s owner access to a security area that no one who praises Jamal Khashoggi, a pal of Osama bin Laden, should ever have been within a million miles of. Amazon is still a behemoth, but it’ll have to do without the military cloud. Now we need to rethink the intel cloud.