> from former AWS employees saying they stole customer data to launch competing services You're reading that a lot differently than I am. The quoted post says

> from former AWS employees saying they stole customer data to launch competing services You're reading that a lot differently than I am. The quoted post says: >AWS proactively looked at traction of products hosted on its platform, built competing products, and then scraped & targeted customer list of those hosted products None of that reads, to me, as them having had to use confidential data to do any of these things. You can identify many organisations that are running on AWS without knowing anything about AWS accounts - blog posts, IP space, public code, social media comments from staff, linkedin and all sorts of other places will often reveal that. Scraping/finding customer lists can be done using research, too. I've spoken to Account Manager-types at places and they've often used various tools that scrape other public resources to identify customers of competing services. Swap out company names, and it's effectively what I've seen from a bunch of companies, without it delving into anything unethical.