If you’re not a fan of big brother you probably should be logging to bare metal instead of Amazon S3.
"We do not access or use your content for any purpose without your consent. We never use your content or derive information from it for marketing or advertising"
"That would be corporate suicide"
Yes sometimes protecting personal privacy might be opposed to a corporations profits. The horror of it!
Not doing so would be a major hit to their business. Whether you trust their reputation and compliance certifications is up to you, but a completely different issue.
Sorry, but :
> How else can they tell where your data is and track how much they need to charge you?
You say companies need to track metadata for pricing and they don't know where your data is without tracking? Huh. I mean, that answer is surreal. I thought you had a console to set everything up and pricing is based on cost + wanted profit.
AWS was like something of 33% profit. Nothing of their pricing is based on GA :p ( like wtf)
Are you being serious with this question? Regardless of whether they look at your data behind the scenes without telling you or not, you don't need to know what type of exact data and metadata you have to charge you. My AWS bill charges me for CPU hours uptime for the server, network requests, load balancing etc. None of this needs them to know your data or even exactly much metadata (other than what domain and server to route to obviously but that's public information anyway).
By your logic, if someone is using end to end encryption, are you saying Amazon wouldn't be able to charge them because they can't look at the encrypted data?
It's more work to do it this way and forsake the convenience provided by Amazon & Co, but I prefer it. Plus I learn lots of things while doing it which I would've outsourced otherwise.
There's also the problem that Amazon might stay 100% truthful and trustworthy and never access my data. But their employees might not. The NSA's surveillance data was misused by employees to stalk romantic interests, so there's no reason to believe that an Amazon employee couldn't wrongfully do the same. They might be fired for it, but the damage is done, privacy has been compromised.