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AWS may notify customers of content it reasonably believes is prohibited and allow 2 business days to remove it before AWS acts; for illegal content, content threatening service integrity, or content subject to legal orders, AWS may act without prior notice.
This analysis describes what AWS Bedrock's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
This provision establishes AWS's content enforcement mechanism, including the conditions under which services may be suspended, and creates a 2-business-day cure period for most prohibited content while reserving the right to act immediately for illegal content or service-threatening material.
The updated terms establish new restrictions on how AWS Capacity Reservations may be used. Specifically, customers purchasing On-Demand Capacity Reservations can no longer resell them to other parties, and AWS reserves the right to cancel the purchase or terminate running instances if the company suspects resale activity. For Capacity Blocks for ML, the grace period before instance termination increased from 30 minutes to 60 minutes for UltraServer instance types, allowing slightly more time to complete workloads. The Amazon Sidewalk qualification program was renamed and simplified, but the underlying security and operational requirements remain in effect.
View change record →The updated terms establish a formal framework for AWS Bedrock's free exploration services, clarifying the operational boundaries and responsibilities. AWS reserves the right to discontinue these services at any time without prior notice, meaning customers cannot rely on their continuation for production planning. Customers are solely responsible for testing, deploying, and maintaining any code, documents, or AI solutions AWS provides, including determining whether those solutions comply with applicable law. AWS retains the right to develop competing products based on content it creates during these engagements, though this does not override existing non-disclosure agreements. Customers are prohibited from requiring AWS personnel to sign additional terms as a condition of receiving free services, and any such documentation signed by AWS personnel is void.
View change record →The updated terms establish new data-sharing mechanisms for users of Anthropic models on Amazon Bedrock. Specifically, AWS now explicitly authorizes notification to Anthropic of metadata present in requests sent to certain Anthropic products (e.g., Claude Code, computer use features), enabling Anthropic to conduct product-level usage attribution. Additionally, the terms introduce AWS WAF AI traffic monetization, which permits AWS to facilitate payment transactions between content publishers and buyers by sharing pricing, payment, and configuration information with payment providers and facilitators; the updated terms clarify that AWS does not provide regulated financial services and is not a party to fund flows, and that users' interactions with payment providers are governed by separate terms between the user and those parties. Users employing these features should review what metadata may be embedded in their requests and understand their own obligations to payment providers.
View change record →Under this clause, customers whose content AWS determines to be prohibited have 2 business days to remove it before AWS may disable access or suspend services, with no cure period available where AWS determines the content is illegal, threatens the services, or is subject to a governmental order.
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"If we reasonably believe any of Your Content violates the law, infringes or misappropriates the rights of any third party, or otherwise violates a material term of the Agreement (including the Service Terms, or the Acceptable Use Policy) ("Prohibited Content"), we will notify you of the Prohibited Content and may request that such content be removed from the Services or access to it be disabled. If you do not remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content within 2 business days of our notice, we may remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content or suspend the Services to the extent we are not able to remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may remove or disable access to any Prohibited Content without prior notice in connection with illegal content, where the content may disrupt or threaten the Services or in accordance with applicable law or any judicial, regulatory or other governmental order or request.Excerpt from AWS Bedrock's AWS Service Terms
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice-and-takedown framework for copyright infringement scenarios, EU Digital Services Act (DSA) content moderation obligations where applicable to AWS as a hosting provider, and applicable national laws governing illegal content removal. The FTC and national regulatory authorities may be relevant depending on the type of content at issue. Governmental orders referenced in the provision may originate from any applicable jurisdiction. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The 2-business-day cure period creates an operational dependency for customers whose workloads may be interrupted by content review actions. The provision does not define a minimum threshold of evidence required for AWS to form a reasonable belief that content is prohibited, and the scope of content reviewed under the Acceptable Use Policy is determined by AWS. Customers operating platforms with large volumes of user-generated content face higher exposure to service interruption through this mechanism. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU customers subject to the Digital Services Act should evaluate how AWS's content moderation obligations under that framework interact with this provision. Customers operating in jurisdictions with mandatory illegal content removal timelines shorter than 2 business days may face legal exposure if they rely on this cure period to satisfy regulatory obligations. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: B2B customers who sublicense AWS infrastructure to downstream users should assess whether service interruptions triggered by this provision create liability exposure to their own customers. Content review and escalation procedures should be in place to respond to AWS prohibited content notices within the 2-business-day window. Incident response plans should account for the possibility of service suspension without prior notice in the scenarios specified. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Customers should review the AWS Acceptable Use Policy to understand the categories of content that may trigger this provision. Operational procedures for monitoring AWS prohibited content notices and escalating to legal or compliance teams within the 2-business-day window should be established. Customers subject to DSA hosting provider obligations should assess whether their own content moderation workflows are compatible with this provision's notice-and-response structure.
This provision establishes AWS's content enforcement mechanism, including the conditions under which services may be suspended, and creates a 2-business-day cure period for most prohibited content while reserving the right to act immediately for illegal content or service-threatening material.
Under this clause, customers whose content AWS determines to be prohibited have 2 business days to remove it before AWS may disable access or suspend services, with no cure period available where AWS determines the content is illegal, threatens the services, or is subject to a governmental order.
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