AWS ELBs typically terminate the SSL connection for you. If you’re using AWS’ certificates management, you won’t have access to the private keys so you have to terminate at the ELBs.

That is correct (assuming https isn't compromised). The issue is that once the requests hits your systems, nothing by default treats url paths as sensitive. The end up in you your elb/Apache/nginx/stack trace logs. Making them really accessible to most employees.

A person in the middle can see the hostname via SNI.

But if you're terminating TLS on behalf of a customer, you can see everything. e.g. https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8cha...

> Among other things, that resulted in us cooperating around monitoring potential hate sites on our network and notifying law enforcement when there was content that contained an indication of potential violence.

That indicates deep inspection of traffic going through CloudFlare.