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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by swiftcoder on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:07AM (#23935618)
> everything you do as an Amazon employee basically leaves a trail with your employee ID

That might be true in retail, but it wasn't anywhere close to true in AWS. When I left most engineers still had SSH access to the production hosts (and a not-insignificant portion of operations relied on that fact).

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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by mcqueenjordan on Friday July 24, 2020 @03:39AM (#23936782)
Leaving aside the question of what SSH access looks like today versus whenever you left...

There are many easy mechanisms to audit and monitor SSH sessions. So... no?

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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by swiftcoder on Sunday July 26, 2020 @04:14PM (#23959834)
They weren't audited at the time (nor was there a standardised way of doing so).
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