Don't count on Amazon winning the $10 billion Defense Department deal -- it's still wide open

Amazon is the undisputed pioneer in distributed computing foundation. Be that as it may, that doesn't mean the organization is near winning a noteworthy cloud contract from the U.S. Division of Defense, in spite of no less than one media report.

The arrangement, which is apparently worth up to $10 billion, could have a material effect for a littler cloud supplier, for example, Oracle or Google. For Amazon's situation, the dollar sum isn't that huge an arrangement - Amazon Web Services books around $5 billion in income for each quarter - yet it would give the organization considerably greater government believability and prompt further arrangements.

The last demand for proposition with refreshed terms, which advises organizations what they'll need to convey to get the agreement, has not been discharged yet. It will end up accessible toward the beginning of May. The agreement will be granted in September, at that point organizations would then be able to record challenges.

U.S. Naval force Commander Patrick Evans, a Department of Defense representative, emphasized that the Pentagon's procedure is "straightforward" and will remain "a full and open rivalry."

"No organizations were pre-chosen. We have no top choices, and we need the best answer for the office," Evans told CNBC.

Boss Pentagon representative Dana White likewise tended to hypothesis Thursday that Amazon was in the number one spot to take the lucrative guard contract.

"The secretary has been evident that we should be great stewards of the American individuals' cash," White said. "Thus, nothing is underestimated and nothing is assumed. We will get a full, open and straightforward rivalry, and this is the first of numerous rivalries concerning the cloud."

Amidst this, President Trump has been communicating worries about Amazon on Twitter, and on Monday Vanity Fair announced that his guides were recommending that he endeavor to "wipe out Amazon's pending contract" with the Pentagon.

After a day, Oracle CEO Safra Catz ate with President Trump, alongside innovation financial specialist Peter Thiel, sources told CNBC.

"I think she and Peter were exceptionally astounded by how much the president really thought about this. He knew a great deal about it," a man acquainted with the supper discussion told CNBC.