Illegal or Harmful Content. Using the Services to store, distribute, or transmit any material that is unlawful or harmful, including content that constitutes child sexual exploitation or abuse, content that facilitates human trafficking, and content that promotes, encourages, or incites acts of violence.
This provision imposes an absolute prohibition with no safe harbor — any AWS-hosted platform that fails to prevent or promptly remove such content faces immediate account termination and mandatory law enforcement referral, creating existential operational risk.
AWS's AUP binds all customers — from individual developers to large enterprises — to a broad set of prohibited use categories, and makes customers responsible for ensuring their own end-users comply. AWS retains the unilateral right to investigate suspected violations and to suspend or remove access to content or resources without prior notice, which can cause immediate service disruption. If you host applications or services on AWS, you should review whether your own terms of service pass these obligations through to your end-users, as failure to do so creates direct liability under your AWS contract.