>> However, today the company announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a big win for the cloud unit and CEO Thomas Kurian.<p>So a single digit Million contract? How is that news at Google scale?
Given the dod budget is bigger than the revenue of google, amzn, and msft combined and with a million employees why can't they just build their own data centers?
It was well known that at the JEDI bidding, GCP's offering is vastly behind MSFT and AWS.<p>Note that that does not necessary contradict the original decision to withdraw based on conflicting AI principle.<p>Edit:<p>A few things GCP is behind at the time:<p>* Very weak support team<p>* Very weak sales team<p>* Very weak past track record<p>* Very poor market recognition<p>* Very limited experience in government contracting<p>Offering is not just technical features. A product is a combination of a lot of things, and technical items are usually the less critical ones.