By terminate I mean Amazon's doing the SSL certificate verification on AWS and reestablishes a new connection (with SPDY) that they themselves sign. In this cas

By terminate I mean Amazon's doing the SSL certificate verification on AWS and reestablishes a new connection (with SPDY) that they themselves sign. In this case, Amazon will be free to read and modify all data in flight, defeating the whole purpose of HTTPS. "We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL."