As Trump Bashes Amazon, the Government Increasingly Relies on It

The company has won billions of dollars in business to help the government shift computing services from legacy mainframes onto the cloud

Amazon.com Inc. is best known for transforming the U.S. retail industry, a feat that President Donald Trump has recently attacked. But the company has quietly been cultivating a major customer in his own backyard: the federal government.

In the past several years, the Seattle-based company has won much of the business to help the government shift computing services from legacy mainframes onto the cloud, a business where Amazon is the world leader.

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