This is interesting. The marketing has certainly been disturbing, reinforcing the worst uses for this sort of tech and overstating its usefulness for those case

This is interesting. The marketing has certainly been disturbing, reinforcing the worst uses for this sort of tech and overstating its usefulness for those cases. But ... unlike Google's contract work with the Defense Department, I'm not sure Amazon could legally get away with refusing to sell an on-demand product to a government agency. This service is nowhere close to the worst thing that's running on Amazon's servers on behalf of governments. The software exists and could easily be set up to run directly by governments or their contractors on Amazon's infrastructure (I guarantee that is already going on far more extensively than Amazon's own specific service will ever grow to). Ditto for GCP and Azure and everything else. I sympathize with these investors, truly, but the only solution here would be to get out of the cloud computing business altogether.