Pentagon deal to boost Microsoft's position in cloud computing - analysts

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's firm grip on the cloud computing market could be threatened by Microsoft Corp's multi-billion dollar contract with the Pentagon, Wall Street analysts said on Monday.Last week, Microsoft won the Pentagon contract termed Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, that will be worth up to $10 billion (£7.78 billion) over a period of 10 years, beating out favorite Amazon's AWS.Shares of Microsoft rose as much as 3.4% to a record high of $145.67 on..