Amazon Web Services Terms Scorecard

Grade F — Predatory terms (score 46/100)

The terms mandate binding arbitration in Beijing, grant the company a perpetual, irrevocable license to your content, and require you to indemnify the company for legal claims.

Forced arbitration, perpetual content license, and broad indemnity requirements.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
UNCLEAR
Forced arbitration
YES
Trains AI on your content
YES
Collects biometric data
UNCLEAR
Shares data with government
UNCLEAR
Easy to cancel
UNCLEAR
Tells you before changes
NO
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

DISPUTES

Any dispute... shall be submitted to China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission for arbitration in Beijing, which shall be conducted in accordance with the Commission’s arbitration rules in effect at the time of applying for arbitration. The arbitral award is final and binding upon both parties.

You cannot sue the company in court; you must use a specific arbitration body in Beijing.

REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT

If you do post content... you grant the Technical Providers and us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.

By posting content, you give the company total control over it forever, even if you delete your account.

YOUR ACCOUNT

We reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content in our sole discretion.

The company can ban you or delete your account whenever they want for any reason.

SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY

We reserve the right to make changes to the Amazon Web Services Site, policies, and these Site Terms at any time.

The terms can change whenever the company decides, and they do not promise to tell you.

REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT

you will indemnify the Technical Providers and us for all claims resulting from content you supply.

If someone sues the company because of something you posted, you have to pay their legal fees and damages.

Last reviewed 2026-08-01 under rubric v3.5.

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