Amazon Launches Space Push to Drive Cloud-Computing Growth

Amazon.com Inc. is boosting efforts to lure military and commercial space organizations as major users of its cloud-computing services, hoping to benefit from rising government spending and burgeoning private investment.

The move by Amazon Web Services, the online retail giant’s cloud-computing arm, comes during a multiyear surge in U.S. military and civilian agency spending on space projects, with NASA, the Pentagon and their largest contractors—including Lockheed Martin Corp.—benefiting from hefty appropriated or proposed…