For the Department of Defense, choosing cloud service providers (CSPs) to bid is a question of capabilities. While there are five U.S.-based hyperscale CSPs, only AWS and Microsoft “appear to be capable of meeting all of the DoD’s requirements at this time,” the GSA said.
When assessing vendors, the Pentagon is looking for: global availability and resiliency; ease of use; centralized management and control; commercial parity; elastic compute, storage and network infrastructure; advanced data analytics; security; and tactical edge devices.
