India, Dec. 10 -- In a session held exclusively for journalists at the AWS re:Invent conference, CEO Andy Jassy went a bit deeper than his keynote on cloud transformation and briefly spoke about a noticeable thorn in AWS's side. During the discussion, Jassy shared a piece of his mind on the claims of bias surrounding a federal cloud contract award his company was vying for.

An active lawsuit disputing the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract awarded to Microsoft restricted what Jassy could say, but he made his company's sentiments clear. Amazon cried foul after the Pentagon awarded the $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft and Jassy said his company believed political interference played a role in the decision. "We f...