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> No one's suggesting Amazon is actually going to spy on your business's bits and bytes (which are already encrypted anyway, right?) ... I don't get it. If I u

by robryk 13y ago

> No one's suggesting Amazon is actually going to spy on your business's bits and bytes (which are already encrypted anyway, right?) ... I don't get it. If I use the data in any way other than simply storing and retrieving it, I'd expect the decryption keys (ignoring very few situations, in which we are able to compute on encrypted data) to reside on the machines that provide the service, which are posited to be on EC2. So how does encryption protect anything from Amazon?

lcampbell 13y ago
Given the plethora of AWS services, the author may have been referring to S3 or RDS. The whole piece read like fire and brimstone, so I wouldn't necessarily give it the benefit of the doubt. There's plenty of other hyperbole in there, gems like: > [Amazon lets] you use [EC2] for pennies per hour. The author's probably referring to micro instances; everything else costs upwards of a dime. For large scale deployments, EC2 is everything except cheap.