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This provision defines the operational boundaries for customer system access and testing activities on the AWS platform. The clause establishes authorization as a control mechanism to prevent both unauthorized access and interference with other customers' operations, which directly affects how customers may conduct security assessments and access management within the AWS environment.
Customers are bound by a requirement to obtain proper authorization before conducting vulnerability testing, security scanning, or penetration testing on systems accessible through AWS Services. The provision also establishes that unauthorized access attempts and activities that interfere with other customers' service use constitute prohibited conduct under 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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"You may not use the Services to gain unauthorized access to any system, network, service, or account; to interfere with the use of the Services by other customers; or to attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network without proper authorization.— Excerpt from Amazon's AWS Acceptable Use Policy
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This provision defines the operational boundaries for customer system access and testing activities on the AWS platform. The clause establishes authorization as a control mechanism to prevent both unauthorized access and interference with other customers' operations, which directly affects how customers may conduct security assessments and access management within the AWS environment.
Customers are bound by a requirement to obtain proper authorization before conducting vulnerability testing, security scanning, or penetration testing on systems accessible through AWS Services. The provision also establishes that unauthorized access attempts and activities that interfere with other customers' service use constitute prohibited conduct under the Acceptable Use Policy.
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