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There are stories about both, but vastly more for Amazon about doing something themselves that they saw one of the sellers on their store do. So I don't think y

• jacquesm 4y ago
  That's true, but Amazon sellers are well aware of the fact that they are operating behind enemy lines and AWS hosting has an entirely different level of expectations associated with it. Even a single case of Amazon raiding the contents of a customer VM to benefit Amazon the retail department would likely have an incredible backlash, so much so that I doubt that over the course that they've been in business we wouldn't have had a tell-all from an employee that was let go. I doubt if AWS would recover from the hit to their reputation if someone provided proof of this happening. The same, by the way, goes for parties operating on either Google or Apple's app stores: they are treading on very thin ice and if either one of those ever decides to go into the market that you yourself are in and are successful in you can pretty much count on a removal from the respective app store on some pretext, even if that requires writing your very own app store rule.