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Speaking of twitchy lawyers and Move to AWS... one of the weirdest things we had to deal with inside Amazon was that, for many years after AWS launched, we were
by throwaway1280 8y ago
Speaking of twitchy lawyers and Move to AWS... one of the weirdest things we had to deal with inside Amazon was that, for many years after AWS launched, we weren't allowed to use it because it "wasn't secure enough".
Given that we were actively shopping it around to major financial institutions at the time, doesn't that strike you as particularly hypocritical? :)
- amznthrowaway2 8y agoIt's still highly restricted for many teams working with customer data
- Hamuko 8y agoSo wait, when I need to convince customers why AWS is secure for their data, I can't say "It's good enough for Amazon!"?
- anth_anm 8y agoNo, you can say hey amazon might use this if they do a security evaluation first. It's totally cool for your data though, don't worry about it. Amazon fucking sucks at dogfooding.
- jtoberon 8y agoTo clarify, an AWS customer has a shared responsibility to describe the security of their systems including how they use AWS tools, and in this respect Amazon is no different than other AWS customers.
- umanwizard 8y agoGP's comment may have been true at one point, but AWS is extremely mainstream within Amazon now and has been for several years.
- andrewguenther 8y agoThis is misleading. This had more to do with internal audit tools and guardrails available than it did the services themselves.