Fears mount around Russian influence over Pentagon cloud data contract

AWS is leading the bid for the Pentagon's multi-billion dollar JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract to store sensitive military data such as nuclear launch codes in a commercial cloud. AWS also has a partnership with C5 Group, a company bearing connections to a sanctioned Russian oligarch, according to the BBC.C5 Group is linked with Viktor Vekselberg, a Kremlin associate who has recently been sanctioned by the US for having close ties with the Kremlin.Vekselberg "poses a risk to the US", said Michael Carpenter, former Pentagon official: "Any oligarch in Russia, when called upon by the Kremlin, to do their bidding will do so, and that is the condition that they keep their wealth."