
The Department of Defense has determined Amazon [AMZN] Web Services and Microsoft [MSFT] are the two vendors capable of meeting the minimum requirements for the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing program, with a contract award now expected in mid-July, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Wednesday. The program update arrives following a series of protests and delays, including a DoD investigation that found no conflicts of interest related to JEDI acquisition but did point to potential ethical violations that…