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I wonder if this is restraint of trade and illegal. It's as if they are telling retailers they can't sell to Walmart and Target.
by coldcode 9y ago
I wonder if this is restraint of trade and illegal. It's as if they are telling retailers they can't sell to Walmart and Target.
- amelius 9y agoThey have good reasons if their data ends up being hosted on a competitor's systems.
- tallanvor 9y agoThere's nothing that says a company couldn't run their service on both AWS or another provider as long as they can guarantee that Wal-Mart's confidential data is not stored on AWS. Honestly, it's not an unreasonable request from a corporate security standpoint.
- disiplus 9y agoaws does not have access to that data, so it does not make sense. walmart are trusting third party with that data, but are somehow afraid that amazon would break in its own system to look at your data, something that would kill aws. i dont think that data is of that value, if it where it would be inhouse.
- throwaway2048 9y agoThey most certainly DO have access to that data, its naivety to the point of farce to suggest they don't. The real question is do they access it in compromising ways?
- dragonwriter 9y agoThis seems more like “work you do for us can't be subcontracted to <firm who we disapprove of>.” This is generally legal.