
A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon and Microsoft [MSFT] to pause work on the potential $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud program while the court considers Amazon’s [AMZN] legal challenge of the contract award. A summary of a sealed opinion filed by a Federal Claims Court judge on Thursday includes a stipulation that Amazon Web Services must provide $42 million, to be held until the case is closed, to cover potential losses associated with the program delay. "We…