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Amazon received more than 2,000 requests for information from governments – and approved almost 900 in full - in the first six months of 2017. The figures come in the web giant's biannual information access report (PDF), which reveals it handed over more information on its customers to the US government than ever before. …

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  1. FuzzyWuzzys

    It depends what it is I suppose. I know for a fact there a few sites out there handing out video training courses ripped off from Lynda and Pluralsight, they're backed by S3 buckets for the storage. A silly example but it's still copyright infringement and still an offence. Imagine the storage is used for kiddie porn or dodgy vids of some nutjob fundamentalist preaching his bullshit. AWS has a lot of useful services and not everyone has the brains to realise that "CLOUD = SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER" and as such they can search your data if they wish.

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    1. BillG
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      I used to see lots of SQL injection attacks and Wordpress directory attacks coming from AWS.

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  2. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    Probably the half they didn't respond to they didn't respond to anyway because the subject had left their data wide open.

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  3. Chairman of the Bored

    Surprised the numbers are that low

    Given the number of transactions Amazon processes and the billions of dollars of cash flow I'm surprised the number is so low.

    Perhaps suspiciously low? Do I hear a sucking sound coming from the other side of a closed door?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Surprised the numbers are that low

      For all we know a single request could contain a lot of information. Just because they "object...to overbroad or otherwise inappropriate" requests doesn't mean that they don't hand over the required information, especially when they're talking about NSA requests

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  4. sloshnmosh

    Amazon Cloudfront

    Yet Amazon refuses any requests by individuals to stop the enormous amount of fraud/malware hosted by Cloudfront.

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