An American multinational technology company that operates e-commerce marketplaces, cloud computing services (Amazon Web Services), digital streaming platforms, and artificial intelligence services, serving hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses globally. The company's policies significantly impact user privacy, data handling, and acceptable use across its vast ecosystem of services, making it a critical platform for policy monitoring due to its extensive reach in digital commerce, cloud infrastructure, and consumer technology services.
High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Amazon’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
Access by any Agent that fails to identify itself or deviates from section 3 requirements is prohibited, creating a hard compliance condition on all automated interactions with Amazon Services.
The jury trial waiver is mutual and absolute, eliminating a fundamental procedural right for both parties in any covered dispute.
Users are required to litigate all disputes in a specific location, which may impose practical and financial burdens on users who do not reside in or near King County, Washington.
Users are barred from recovering any category of damages from Amazon in connection with use of Amazon Services, including damages that would ordinarily be recoverable at law.
Users cannot rely on any warranty protection regarding Amazon Services; all implied and express warranties are disclaimed, eliminating standard consumer warranty remedies.
This policy sets out the rules for using AWS services and the AWS website. You are bound by the current version of the rules whenever you use AWS, and Amazon …
This document sets the rules for using Amazon's services: you get a limited personal, non-commercial license to use them, and you cannot resell, commercially exploit, or use automated scraping tools …
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ConductAtlas tracks 2 Amazon documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Amazon has made 16 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 78 provisions across Amazon's tracked documents. 18 are rated high severity, 51 medium, and 9 low.
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