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AWS Service Terms 42.10

52 points| vbezhenar | 4 years ago |aws.amazon.com

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[+] diggan|4 years ago|reply
I've generated and uploaded a git patch to gist.github.com so you could easier see the changes: https://gist.github.com/victorb/d51151a71bbc2cea8db27e115ab5...

I'm sure there is some service that offers this on the fly, but quick search didn't reveal anything of interest that you could use for free.

Thanks jcims for the link to the previous terms :)

[+] diggan|4 years ago|reply
One interesting addition:

> +50.9. Amazon has implemented a moratorium on use of Amazon Rekognition’s face comparison feature by police departments in connection with criminal investigations. This moratorium does not apply to use of Amazon Rekognition’s face comparison feature to help identify or locate missing persons. For more information, see our announcement on our Amazon Day One Blog.

[+] qaq|4 years ago|reply
wtf "You will provide information or other materials related to Your Content (including copies of any client-side applications) as reasonably requested by us to verify your compliance with the Agreement."
[+] aborsy|4 years ago|reply
I thought AWS is one of the most privacy respecting companies.

Elsewhere they say we don’t look at your data. Here they indicate, not only we look at your data to verify your compliance, but we may even ask client side applications not held on our data centers.

Weird, if you ask me!

[+] YPPH|4 years ago|reply
Hopefully that "reasonably" in "reasonably requested" has some work to do. I don't think going on a fishing expedition is reasonable, on the other hand if they have evidence suggesting you are not in compliance with the agreement that is more likely to be reasonable.
[+] Semaphor|4 years ago|reply
That is apparently not a new clause.
[+] darksaints|4 years ago|reply
To anybody out there that thinks AWS is a good company to rely on: just look at that version number.

And if you want an analogy for what being their customer will be like 5 years from now, you can compare the customer service experience of Amazon.com 5 years ago with their customer service today.

5 years ago: sorry your package arrived late, here's a free month of Amazon prime to make up for it.

Today: I don't really care if your package arrived late. Check again in a couple days, most of the time packages just magically show up a few days later than when we said they'd arrive.

[+] barbazoo|4 years ago|reply
Personal anecdote, had ordered fairly expensive headphones the other day, I wasn't home yet their tracking said "handed to resident". Customer support said that happens sometimes and the package will probably still arrive within the next 2 days. Yeah sure. Didn't happen, they sent me another pair. It's awful how much waste and theft there is in this system and I feel terrible to occasionally be a part of that.
[+] vegasje|4 years ago|reply
The number in the title is referencing a clause in the terms, not stating the version number of the terms.
[+] cpach|4 years ago|reply
Any significant changes?
[+] fartcannon|4 years ago|reply
You know you can host your own servers, right? Its actually a lot easier than using AWS, too.
[+] barbazoo|4 years ago|reply
Is it actually a lot easier? By what metric?

I'm assuming when you say "host your own servers" you mean actual hardware, right? So getting the hardware, setting it up, hooking it up, reliably, to power and the internet, physically securing it, maintaining hardware, that's "a lot easier" than using a couple EC2 instances across availability zones?

[+] fulafel|4 years ago|reply
In a lot of orgs, you are allowed to use AWS but only "IT" can host their own servers, and they are hard to deal with. This I also a major rarely spoken factor for the success of AWS.