Amazon Web Services raises concerns over Commerce Dept. proposal to address malicious cloud-based cyber activities

Amazon Web Services is urging the Commerce Department to clarify its proposed rulemaking to establish a regime where cloud service providers would be required to share information on the identity of their foreign customers.

The proposed rule would be ineffective in addressing the U.S. government’s “national security objectives [and] actually would detract from these objectives by potentially driving customers to foreign cloud infrastructure providers (‘Foreign Providers’) and less secure on-premises infrastructure and diverting resources from effective efforts to address malicious...