DHS finalizes first Cumulus cloud contract with AWS
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ByRoss Wilkers,
Senior Staff Reporter
June 15, 2026 04:50 PM ET
The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services.
The Homeland Security Department has finalized the first out of four awards under Cumulus, a centralized contract for acquiring commercial cloud computing services across the entire organization.
Amazon Web Services’ portion of the contract will have a $2.5 billion ceiling over up to five years, DHS said in a Friday Sam.gov notice.
The department is now working on awards to Oracle, Google Cloud and Microsoft with the goal of finalizing those by the end of the calendar year’s second quarter, or the end of this month.
Each award under Cumulus will cover a one-year base period and up to four individual option years.
DHS created Cumulus to have...
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