AWS, Microsoft land piece of $9B Pentagon cloud contract formerly known as JEDI

The Department of Defense on Wednesday awarded a $9 billion hybrid cloud computing contract to the world's largest tech companies, all of whom had bid, protested, lobbied and bid again for the lucrative deal formerly known as JEDI. Amazon Web Services Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Google Support Services LLC (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Oracle America Inc. (NYSE: ORCL), will share in what's now called the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity…