Pentagon splits $9 billion cloud contract among Google, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft

U.S. flag hangs during a ceremony to honor victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S., September 11, 2022. REUTERS/Cheriss May

(Reuters) - The Pentagon awarded $9 billion worth of cloud computing contracts to Alphabet Inc's Google, Amazon Web Services Inc, Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp on Wednesday.

The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) is the multi-cloud successor to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), which was an IT modernization project to build a large, common commercial cloud for the Department of Defense.