BUSINESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “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. This extraordinary transformation has included the provision of cloud services across Washington’s bureaucracy from the Department of Homeland Security to the Smithsonian Institution. It also has made the U.S. government a top Amazon customer.”
– Ted Mann and Brody Mullins, “As Trump Bashes Amazon, the Government Increasingly Relies on It,” The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2018 5:30 am