Is it very different from running all your sensitive company code on Bezos & Co servers?

Do the AWS Master Service Agreements really not preclude Amazon from searching through your data for their own purposes?

Isn't the only entity that could conclusively determine if the agreement has been violated the very one who would violate it?

It seems unlikely given that Amazon has been rapidly scaling up the services they offer, with some of them conveniently taking the form of companies who run their entire operation on AWS (i.e. Twilio with AWS Contact Center).

If somebody can prove me wrong, however, that would be lovely :)

Regardless though, expecting Amazon to refrain from taking the proprietary information they have access to (in any form) and drilling you into the ground with their own twist on it seems like a bad bet, just ask Nucleus.

I'll concede to that to a degree.

Who would ever sign on to Slack/continue to use Slack when <different corporation> could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations? It's not like Slack can't do so now, if they chose.

Companies that don't want to entrust their sensitive conversations to Slack, etc., opt to use on-site Hipchat servers, or other means of communication. Amazon buying Slack doesn't significantly alter their calculus.

Slack isn't in the business of offering competing services based on the data that flows through their systems. Something you can't exactly say is true with Amazon.

If Amazon wanted to be evil they have a lot more to work with than just chat conversations...

"So what's one more thing"

I get that you don't trust Amazon, but if you think they would protect your data less rigorously than Slack you really need to provide a more substantive argument.

Truth be told I love Amazon for the innovation they've brought to most of the industries they've touched but it's like there's some aura of trust around them just because they have brought some of their might against Facebook and Google which seem to be considered the evil twins on HN.

What's wrong with that? I feel like they've earned a measure of trust. Sure, they're not perfect but no one is.

Me! I don't care what Bezos & Co. are doing with my chat logs.