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> We know what Google and Facebook get up to with peoples data, why would Amazon not analyze or try similar to their customers? To have all that technical capability and not be curious about stuff would be a waste.

Do Google, Amazon or Microsoft look at the data of their cloud offer clients?

I bet that if they do and it is know their business would go to hell

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Agree totally. I would find it hard to believe, that large well financed companies, with some of the most technically capable staff on the planet, would have the restraint to not peek.

So you think Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc spy the confidential data of their customers?

So .. you think they ... don't?

Until proven wrong, yes, I think they don't do that, there is no proof and it would be very silly to do that on EC2, Google Cloud or Azure.

Any hint that they could have been sneaking in confidential data of customers?

It's not just a matter of restraint. Large, well-financed companies can also afford to put some of their most capable staff on internal security.

True, but also a fairly recent Yahoo/email access incident, is a case in point where people decided to circumvent the entire security staff.

> It's not just a matter of restraint. Large, well-financed companies can also afford to put some of their most capable staff on internal security.

So how come the VW fiasco didn't get caught years ago?

Orders from the top and a lack of activist employees?

It's not inevitable; much depends on employee culture.

On the other hand, look at Uber.

Right, so one cannot assume that these cloud providers have a golden heart and won't peak into our data. I don't see what stops them from peeking into the data, ensuring that the business dies and later just pay some "fine". Basically what MS did killing many companies unscrupulously.

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