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by yashap 1945 days ago
Yeah, Amazon is a massive target for hackers, but hasn’t had any particularly bad breaches that I can remember. I’m sure their security/privacy is far from perfect, but it seems to be pretty effective.

FWIW I’ve never worked for Amazon, but I have quite a few friends and former coworkers at AWS. We’ve had discussions about security and privacy, and the general sense I got from them is that Amazon has more of a focus on security and privacy than any tech company they’ve previously worked for.
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quantified 1945 days ago
They are a juicy target. Their doorknobs are doubtless getting rattled all the time. We haven’t heard anything, but also they have to know they’re breached before they tell anyone. Let’s see what happens over the next couple of years.
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guitarbill 1945 days ago
From OP:

> They also noted that AWS is largely run separately from the rest of the company.

So this maybe isn't surprising. One deals with mere customers, the other with businesses that have money and lawyers. AWS is also newer than Amazon, right?

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yashap 1945 days ago
Yeah good point, it’s certainly possible that Amazon.com and AWS have significantly different security/privacy policies/practice.
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