AWS can shut off your access to all services immediately, with only notice (not advance warning), if AWS decides your use poses a security risk, may harm other customers, could expose AWS to liability, or if you breach the agreement.
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An immediate suspension without the opportunity to remediate first could cause significant operational disruption for businesses that depend on AWS for critical workloads, and the triggers for suspension include broad and somewhat subjective criteria such as potential liability to AWS.
AWS retains the right to suspend all of a customer's cloud services without advance notice under broadly defined circumstances, including situations where AWS determines there is a potential liability risk. For businesses running production workloads on AWS, an unexpected suspension could result in immediate service outages affecting end customers and revenue.
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Linear will use commercially reasonable efforts...to (x) provide Customer with notice and an opportunity to remedy such violation or threat prior to any such suspension...
as required by law or at the request of governmental entities.
Upon any termination of your rights hereunder, for any reason, you will immediately uninstall or delete the Applications and cease any further use of such Applications.
"We may suspend your or any End User's right to access or use any portion or all of the Service Offerings immediately upon notice to you if we determine: (a) your or an End User's use of the Service Offerings (i) poses a security risk to the Service Offerings or any third party, (ii) may adversely impact the Service Offerings or the systems or Content of any other AWS customer, (iii) may subject us, our affiliates, or any third party to liability, or (iv) may be fraudulent; (b) you are, or any End User is, in breach of this Agreement.Excerpt from AWS's Customer Agreement
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The suspension clause interacts with business continuity and operational resilience requirements under frameworks including the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) for financial entities, and relevant sector-specific regulatory guidance on cloud service dependency.
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An immediate suspension without the opportunity to remediate first could cause significant operational disruption for businesses that depend on AWS for critical workloads, and the triggers for suspension include broad and somewhat subjective criteria such as potential liability to AWS.
AWS retains the right to suspend all of a customer's cloud services without advance notice under broadly defined circumstances, including situations where AWS determines there is a potential liability risk. For businesses running production workloads on AWS, an unexpected suspension could result in immediate service outages affecting end customers and revenue.
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