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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by wlesieutre on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:13AM (#24432012)
> What are the realistic odds that someone internally at Amazon is going to break into your instances to look at your data if you're just a regular business?

I mean, there's this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...

> The online retailing giant has long asserted, including to Congress, that when it makes and sells its own products, it doesn’t use information it collects from the site’s individual third-party sellers—data those sellers view as proprietary.

> Yet interviews with more than 20 former employees of Amazon’s private-label business and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal reveal that employees did just that. Such information can help Amazon decide how to price an item, which features to copy or whether to enter a product segment based on its earning potential, according to people familiar with the practice, including a current employee and some former employees who participated in it.

If you're a regular business and Amazon doesn't want to launch a new hosted product competing with you, then maybe you're safe. But if they want your data, why not just take it while repeatedly insisting that they don't?

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by koheripbal on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:51AM (#24432347)
That is an apples to oranges comparison.

It is wildly different to scoop up data from your own Amazon.com platform vs BREAKING IN to a private AWS instance. They aren't even the same divisions in Amazon Inc, so it would be extremely obvious to everyone, very inappropriate, and most likely get leaked that it was happening.

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:22AM (#24433168)
Fruit is fruit, both can and do rot :)