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> How else can they tell where your data is and track how much they need to charge you? Are you being serious with this question? Regardless of whether they lo
by busymom0 8y ago
> How else can they tell where your data is and track how much they need to charge you?
Are you being serious with this question? Regardless of whether they look at your data behind the scenes without telling you or not, you don't need to know what type of exact data and metadata you have to charge you. My AWS bill charges me for CPU hours uptime for the server, network requests, load balancing etc. None of this needs them to know your data or even exactly much metadata (other than what domain and server to route to obviously but that's public information anyway).
By your logic, if someone is using end to end encryption, are you saying Amazon wouldn't be able to charge them because they can't look at the encrypted data?
- taormina 8y agoI was thinking more about S3, where I know for a fact that are charging on a per-request basis and a volume basis. Amazon can and should absolutely charge them irrespective of the contents of the blob of data, and regardless of whether they read it or not, my point is encrypt it if you're worried.
- busymom0 8y agoOh yea, I totally agree with the "encrypt it if you're worried" part. In my opinion, if you have any user sensitive info, you should absolutely use end to end encryption and ssl etc.