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They serve competitor workloads as well, I'd say they there is a huge incentive for cloud providers to put in backdoors if they could get away with it. They are deeply entrenched in rigid processes and rigorous compliance audits.

If torrenting is the basis of your risk profile, seedboxes are a lot more safer.

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But you don't need a backdoor. Log incoming and outgoing traffic from a VPS and you'll have all the information you need to deanonymize you.

This is something that they will probably do as a policy, simply because "AWS used for torrenting, storing and seeding CP" is a headline that can do far more damage to their business than some logging ever will.

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