As Apple continues to resist FBI demands to unlock a terrorist suspect’s phone, it raises a question: What if Amazon Web Services was ordered to provide access to a customer’s cloud? Would AWS hand the data over to the feds?
Amazon’s terms of service provide us a clue. AWS says it complies with legally binding orders when compelled to do so. Here’s a statement from Amazon’s FAQ on cloud data privacy (which is not written specifically about the Apple-FBI issue):
