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This clause establishes operational boundaries on permissible use of AWS messaging and email services, requiring customers to ensure their messaging activities comply with anti-spam laws and recipient consent requirements.
Customers are contractually obligated to refrain from spam activities using AWS resources, including bulk unsolicited commercial email and messages to opted-out recipients. Violation of this provision constitutes a breach of 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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"Messaging Abuse. Sending bulk unsolicited commercial email, whether through your own server or any other server on the internet (also known as 'spam'). Sending any unsolicited commercial message for the purpose of advertising or promoting goods, services, or websites. Sending commercial messages to persons who have opted out of receiving such messages, or sending messages in violation of applicable laws.— Excerpt from Amazon's AWS Acceptable Use Policy
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This clause establishes operational boundaries on permissible use of AWS messaging and email services, requiring customers to ensure their messaging activities comply with anti-spam laws and recipient consent requirements.
Customers are contractually obligated to refrain from spam activities using AWS resources, including bulk unsolicited commercial email and messages to opted-out recipients. Violation of this provision constitutes a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
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