AWS now liable?
AWS has decided to be the police for their customer's users. Okay, that's fine and dandy. There is no cloud, there is only someone else's computer. In this case the computer belongs to Amazon and they are deciding what it is allowed to do, despite tenants paying money to use it.
What happens when they fail to catch threat actors, pedophiles, and other malcontents who are using AWS? Since they are now establishing themselves as the de facto police force for THEIR infrastructure, is AWS now liable because they have created this perceived safety? They cannot pick and choose which AWS tenants they enforce their policies with. If they are protecting society from the evils of Parler, then they must protect society from all other evils. Going forward any failure to do so would seem to be a legal liability.
And since AWS has now made that commitment to policing their infrastructure, it stands to reason they will need unfettered access in to everything hosted there. That means everyone hosting anything in AWS needs to make it available for inspection by AWS at all times, assuming they do not have back door access already.
The bottom line is this should make everyone hesitant to use AWS for any business critical infrastructure. If they have the power to shut one company down, they can do it to anyone - whether by mistake or intent. Go ahead and use AWS for non-critical workloads, but keep control of your core business assets.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
