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$36,413,233

Department of Agriculture·Office of the Chief Financial Officer

to AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC

ai-infrastructureactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-08-20·LATEST ACTION2026-04-22·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_12314424F0376_1205_12314424G0052_1205
Award description

STRATUS POOL 1 CLOUD SERVICE BOA FOR AWS CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER CORE SERVICES

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

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In plain English

USDA procurement of AWS cloud services for core infrastructure and data management operations.

Sub-sectors
cloud-computinggovernment-it-servicesdata-centers
Why this matters

Consolidates federal agricultural data and systems on commercial cloud infrastructure, affecting USDA's digital modernization and operational resilience.

Supply-chain signal

Strengthens AWS's position as primary cloud provider for federal agencies; signals continued reliance on commercial cloud vendors for government IT.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. government adoption of domestic cloud infrastructure reduces dependence on foreign computing resources and supports domestic tech sector competitiveness.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002159.

Period of performance
Start
2024-08-20
End
2029-08-19
Status
activein 1188 days
Sources

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