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This provision establishes baseline security boundaries for AWS infrastructure by defining prohibited activities that could compromise system integrity, confidentiality, or availability. It creates operational standards that apply uniformly across all customer accounts and use cases.
Interpretive note: The boundary between authorized and unauthorized access in security research contexts involves factual and legal determinations that vary by jurisdiction and engagement-specific circumstances.
Users operating AWS services must ensure their activities do not include unauthorized security testing, probing, scanning, or breach attempts, and must restrict data access and monitoring to the scope of authorization granted. Exceeding authorized access parameters or intercepting communications constitutes a policy violation regardless of technical capability.
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You agree not to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any ...
You must not use Mailchimp to send to role-based email addresses (such as info@, sales@, or support@), to send to addresses harvested from websites or other online sources without permission, or to email addresses obtained through dictionary attacks or automated address generation.
You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Services in any medium; (ii) using any automated system, including 'robots,' 'spiders,' 'offline readers,' etc., to access the Services; (iii) transmitting spam, chain lett...
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"Security Violations. Accessing or using any System without permission, including attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of a System or to breach any security or authentication measures used by a System. Intercepting or redirecting, or attempting to intercept or redirect, communications without permission. Monitoring, copying, or downloading data to or from a System without authorization or in excess of authorization granted.— Excerpt from Amazon's AWS Acceptable Use Policy
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This provision establishes baseline security boundaries for AWS infrastructure by defining prohibited activities that could compromise system integrity, confidentiality, or availability. It creates operational standards that apply uniformly across all customer accounts and use cases.
Users operating AWS services must ensure their activities do not include unauthorized security testing, probing, scanning, or breach attempts, and must restrict data access and monitoring to the scope of authorization granted. Exceeding authorized access parameters or intercepting communications constitutes a policy violation regardless of technical capability.
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