Amazon has for years been stealing from merchants on their platform and AWS is just another part of their platform. They are everything we caution people again

Amazon has for years been stealing from merchants on their platform and AWS is just another part of their platform. They are everything we caution people against when they depend on a single API like being a superfluous Twitter client getting crushed, just a much, much larger API. In Mongo's unfortunate case they couldn't stop people from deploying to EC2 before Amazon determined it was worth stealing, but it doesn't even have to be software you use on EC2 it can be your software too. They copy products from third party vendors selling on Amazon - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/amazon-s-copy-cat-products-targeted-as-eu-quizzes-smaller-rivals https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/amazon-s-... http://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/ http://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/ They even copy SaaS hosted on AWS if the number are good - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partner_products/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn...