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by quickthrower2 1832 days ago
IANAL but I wouldn’t risk it. Especially as it’s AWS related stuff (rather than your name is Andrew William Smith or something)

Why not use cloud in place of AWS in the name?
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yellow_lead 1832 days ago
That also didn't stop Mike Rowe
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quickthrower2 1831 days ago
Didn’t he win in the end? But even if he did it’s a lot of stressed to be sued by a tech giant.
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yellow_lead 1831 days ago
Yeah, he did get a good settlement it seems. So maybe not a bad idea if your initials are AWS :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft#Pres...
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