[cloudhead]

Completely agree - what I'm wondering is why they are telling their customers that they can verify the data for themselves, when that is entirely pointless: "and using cryptography, you can easily verify that there have been no unintended modifications to your application’s data"

[Filligree]

How is it useless?

If the digest you provide is found, then you know the data hasn't been changed. Sure, that's the only bit of information you get, but in a lot of cases that's the only one you need.

It doesn't guarantee your data can't be changed, no. What guarantees that is your contact with Amazon.

[cloudhead]

Your other comment puts it nicely - "trust but verify" - I guess it's more about auditing yourself, than Amazon.

[CiPHPerCoder]

Maybe they just want to quell the blockchainia.