The claim is that you agree not to sue Amazon for IP violations, so they could do whatever they want and an honest man constrained by his code of honor to never

The claim is that you agree not to sue Amazon for IP violations, so they could do whatever they want and an honest man constrained by his code of honor to never break any agreement would be powerless to stop them. Genies and devils would also have no recourse. Most concerned users on this site are startup founders or CTOs, who aren't likely to have a code of honor of any sort except for marketing purposes. So it's worth asking what the punishment is for breaking the agreement and suing them anyways. The punishment for violating the agreement is that they can shut off your service and tell you to go away in 30 days. So my reading is that if Amazon stole your Redshift-competitor and you sued them for copyright infringement: * You'd win the lawsuit, because you never gave them a license to use your code. * You'd be blackballed from AWS, banned from either using AWS or working for anyone who uses AWS. You'd have 30 days to move your product to Google Cloud or Azure. Which seems reasonable to me.