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The prohibition extends beyond the user's own conduct to cover facilitation and permitting third-party violations, expanding the scope of user responsibility.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a partial sentence establishing the general prohibition framework; it does not specify which particular uses are prohibited. The specific prohibited uses appear in separate clauses. Confidence is medium because the canonical claim is drawn from an incomplete sentence and the full scope of prohibited conduct depends on the remainder of the clause not quoted here.
You are responsible not only for your own use of AWS services but also for ensuring that others you enable or permit do not use them in prohibited ways.
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"You may not use, or facilitate or allow others to use, the Services or the AWS SiteExcerpt from Amazon's AWS Acceptable Use Policy
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The prohibition extends beyond the user's own conduct to cover facilitation and permitting third-party violations, expanding the scope of user responsibility.
You are responsible not only for your own use of AWS services but also for ensuring that others you enable or permit do not use them in prohibited ways.
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