Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c...
by dodobirdlord on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:49PM
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At the end of the day there's obviously nothing other than remotely storing your keys that will keep your data opaque. Even supposing that the IAM team doesn't have a way to forge a valid credential if they need to, the confirm/deny response of their service to authorization checks is the source-of-truth for whether a credential is valid, and they could update their service endpoint to affirm bad credentials if they wanted to. Presumably for law enforcement purposes they have a way to forge a credential that doesn't show up in audit logs.
In order for AWS to comply with LEO's they must have some way of accessing data, that is NOT to say they do this for business purposes.