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Amazon has been caught copying customer products to sell as their own before [1], and AWS has been accused more than once of doing the same [2]. It's a pattern

Amazon has been caught copying customer products to sell as their own before [1], and AWS has been accused more than once of doing the same [2]. It's a pattern of behavior from Amazon, and given their backstabbing, cut throat culture (that you mentioned) isn't it fair to say that it's possible for Amazon employees looking to get ahead at all costs would violate those strict rules? [1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-india-rigging/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-i... [2] https://archive.ph/M7hLF https://archive.ph/M7hLF

guelo 4y ago
It could be that Amazon treats AWS differently than their retail business. Any AWS data stealing scandal could easily drive away multi-million dollar contracts. But they've gone through many retail scandals without seemingly affecting anything.
scarface74 4y ago
You’re talking about something completely different. This wasn’t AWS having access to customer workloads. I am current employee at AWS. The amount of alarm bells that would go off, audits and complicity by line level employees to make this feasible and it not come out is astronomical.
- skohan 4y ago
  Nobody's talking about access to customer workloads. Does Amazon have knowledge about how much they're billing each client for bandwidth?
  - scarface74 4y ago
    I’m going to try my best to look at things from the outside. I’m sure there are some people that do. But AWS also knows what is it’s customers need and would be far more likely to go after those markets. Than go after a second level derivative like bandwidth. I personally couldn’t imagine that it would go over to well if someone wrote a proposal in the form of a PRFAQ saying we should go after $x market because we noticed that a customer’s bandwidth was high.

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Amazon has been caught copying customer products to sell as their own before [1], and AWS has been accused more than once of doing the same [2]. It's a pattern

by minsc_and_boo 4y ago

guelo 4y ago
It could be that Amazon treats AWS differently than their retail business. Any AWS data stealing scandal could easily drive away multi-million dollar contracts. But they've gone through many retail scandals without seemingly affecting anything.
scarface74 4y ago
You’re talking about something completely different. This wasn’t AWS having access to customer workloads. I am current employee at AWS. The amount of alarm bells that would go off, audits and complicity by line level employees to make this feasible and it not come out is astronomical.
- skohan 4y ago
  Nobody's talking about access to customer workloads. Does Amazon have knowledge about how much they're billing each client for bandwidth?
  - scarface74 4y ago
    I’m going to try my best to look at things from the outside. I’m sure there are some people that do. But AWS also knows what is it’s customers need and would be far more likely to go after those markets. Than go after a second level derivative like bandwidth. I personally couldn’t imagine that it would go over to well if someone wrote a proposal in the form of a PRFAQ saying we should go after $x market because we noticed that a customer’s bandwidth was high.