Pentagon awards $9B cloud contract formerly known as JEDI to AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle

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. Google Support Services LLC (Nasdaq: GOOG), Oracle America Inc. (NYSE: ORCL), Amazon Web Services Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) — all of which have a presence in Austin, where the Army Futures Command is located — will share in what's now…