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This provision operates as a usage boundary that protects AWS infrastructure and other customers from abuse vectors commonly associated with email and messaging systems. By defining prohibited practices, the clause establishes compliance obligations that customers must meet to maintain service access and creates operational standards for permissible use of AWS communication tools.
Customers operating email or messaging systems through AWS must implement practices that prevent spam, phishing, malware distribution, and other abuse. Violation of this restriction subjects the customer's account to potential service suspension, termination, or other enforcement actions specified in the Acceptable Use Policy.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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This provision operates as a usage boundary that protects AWS infrastructure and other customers from abuse vectors commonly associated with email and messaging systems. By defining prohibited practices, the clause establishes compliance obligations that customers must meet to maintain service access and creates operational standards for permissible use of AWS communication tools.
Customers operating email or messaging systems through AWS must implement practices that prevent spam, phishing, malware distribution, and other abuse. Violation of this restriction subjects the customer's account to potential service suspension, termination, or other enforcement actions specified in the Acceptable Use Policy.
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