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This provision establishes AWS's operational authority to enforce service integrity and protect network infrastructure from degradation. The restriction enables AWS to maintain service availability across its customer base and prevent cascading network impacts from individual customer activity.
Under this provision, customers must ensure their network traffic and usage patterns comply with the stated restrictions. Violations of the network abuse prohibition may trigger service suspension or termination according to AWS's enforcement procedures outlined 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 establishes AWS's operational authority to enforce service integrity and protect network infrastructure from degradation. The restriction enables AWS to maintain service availability across its customer base and prevent cascading network impacts from individual customer activity.
Under this provision, customers must ensure their network traffic and usage patterns comply with the stated restrictions. Violations of the network abuse prohibition may trigger service suspension or termination according to AWS's enforcement procedures outlined in the Acceptable Use Policy.
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