On May 10, 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that officials at the U.S. Department of Defense were considering dropping Microsoft's $10 billion cloud computing contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) that was given to the company in 2019. Critics, including Amazon.com Inc. had argued that the Microsoft contract award was influenced by politics: that included then-President Donald Trump’s antagonism toward Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns, who personally owns the The Washington Post. On July 6, 2021, the Pentagon canceled Microsoft's JEDI contract, which had faced legal challenges by both Amazon and Oracle. The Pentagon will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Amazon, as well as potential additional cloud service providers. The Department of Defense will reportedly finalize a decision on which companies will be allowed to participate in the program by the end of October 2021.