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Amazon has regularly launched products with their "Amazon Basics" brand, copying well-selling 3rd-party products sold on Amazon.com, always a few bucks cheaper. [1]

What makes you think it would be different with AWS?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...

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Are you really comparing making knockoff products with stealing their consumers data?

I doubt that actually looking into EC2 instances (which AWS would never do, "pinkie promise") would even be necessary. Metadata about the company's deployed infrastructure would totally suffice to derive enough business insights to launch a "knockoff product", as you call it.

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