NSA Re-Awards $10B Cloud Computing Contract to AWS

Unsurprising - AWS has been the front-runner for a while now. They have been aggressively marketing their capabilities to the US government and are well-positioned to win this type of contract.

Whoever wins these contracts, I hope that taxpayers get a good deal - not that we have much choice in the matter. For example, my company, Usage.AI, cuts AWS bills by up to 57% using Reserved Instances, but without any lock-in.

At the scale of $10 billion, every percentage point cut is worth $100 million. With the average business wasting 35% on their AWS bill, that's $3.5 billion of potential savings that could be going back into the taxpayer's pockets (https://www.flexera.com/blog/cloud/aws-costs-how-much-are-yo...).

But I digress.

AWS is clearly the leader in cloud computing, and they have been for some time. They have made significant investments in their infrastructure and their team, and it shows.

Break up Bezos. He shan't own a newspaper and a bazaar and a post office and a repository of dirt on American citizens.