That cannot possibly be true.

Do you imagine the fallout if it came out ( and how would in not, thousands of people would have passed through, one disgruntled employee is enough) ? AWS would lose most customers within a few years, Amazon.com as well ( disgusted buyers and sellers), there'd be lawsuit everywhere. I really don't think anyone in Amazon is stupid enough to risk a trillion dollar business for some potential competitive advantage on whatever sold on Amazon.com

Amazon has regularly launched products with their "Amazon Basics" brand, copying well-selling 3rd-party products sold on Amazon.com, always a few bucks cheaper. [1]

What makes you think it would be different with AWS?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...

Are you really comparing making knockoff products with stealing their consumers data?

I doubt that actually looking into EC2 instances (which AWS would never do, "pinkie promise") would even be necessary. Metadata about the company's deployed infrastructure would totally suffice to derive enough business insights to launch a "knockoff product", as you call it.

The fallout is already in effect, if you read the above comments.

Pretty much this: https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1367929509354299392