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Amazon does not access private S3/Ec3 data for retail competitive purposes.

The comments above indicating 'well someone has access' - yea, obviously, it's data hosting. Someone has access.

But the amount of conspiracy here is frustrating.

Amazon will play very aggressively within the bounds of the law, meaning, if they can glean public info about something, or look at their own sales data for a product, they will do that.

But to look at s3 data would risk the entire empire.

It's rational for people to be a bit skeptical, and so Walmart can say 'no data on AWS' but it's also an easy thing to do.

Now - is it possible that new retail PM, who used to be an AWS PM, and who for some reason still had access to things he shouldn't - went ahead and did that? That could happen. And maybe his boss finds out and looks the other way but calls IT and tries to have the loophole closed quietly. Etc.

As a policy are they trying to copy your product and even ask you for information and aggressively pursue customer data? Yes.

As a policy are they looking at your S3/ec2 data - no.




I dont think its just about playing by the book of law. I'm sure they also consider optics and trust in the brand.


As a company they do, and that's how policy is set.

But individual actors are individual actors, in a company of 100 000 people, some will go astray.

They are pushing their 'white label' stuff agressively, I have no doubt the PM's have zero qualms about using Amazon.com sales data to their advantage.

But I also submit that retail PM's actually getting access to private S3/EC2 is totally rubbish, at least by any policy or scale.

They could be sued for billions in each case of that breach, and the resulting PR fallout would be impossible.

Imagine you are the VP of AWS - you make all the profit for Amazon.

Are you going to somehow allow some dirty Retail PM access to your customers data?

When your customer finds out, and tells the world, and it gets in the press, what happens?

If your ABC startup had evidence that Amazon was creeping on your data as policy, you'd have to dump them instantly.

They could say goodbye to every government contract.

If you are Bezos - would you risk the entire Brand and the cash-cow to move some low-margin pair of shoes and USB hub?

So no, I think the firewall between AWS and Retail is systematically legit.




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