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In other news, water is wet. All joking aside, and even as the article points out re: the T+Cs, is anybody surprised?

• michaelt 3y ago
  Many cloud providers maintain the pretence that their employees don't have access to customer data. For example, they like to maintain that if you run an amazon competitor hosted on AWS, amazon insiders can't look at sales numbers in your hosted database. Or if you run a google competitor with e-mail hosted on gmail, that google insiders can't view your e-mails. And so on. Personally I've always found these promises rather hard to believe, but a lot of people have a great deal of trust in them.
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  • nullindividual 3y ago
    I worked for a large cloud provider and that is correct, employees did not have access to customer data. The encryption key in this product is split between a SQL database and the front end servers with blob data being stored outside of SQL (customer data). There was no way for a single employee to get access to both portions of the key to decrypt customer data. Using AWS when you're a competitor of Amazon seems like poor business decision making.
    • marcosdumay 3y ago
      Who isn't a competitor of Amazon? Or, better, who isn't a competitor and is also not at risk of becoming one?
      • nullindividual 3y ago
        If the answer is "everyone" is a competitor of Amazon, no one should be using AWS except for Amazon.