Amazon's Cloud Computing Services Fuelled Israel's Genocide in Gaza, Expose Reveals.
In a shocking revelation, Amazon has been found to be providing cloud computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers – Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israeli Aerospace Industries – whose munitions have devastated the Gaza Strip. This comes amid allegations that these companies are linked to genocide, with experts claiming that Israel's military used their products to kill civilians in recent years.
The Israeli Ministry of Finance had previously declared that Project Nimbus was a "military program" aimed at providing an all-encompassing cloud solution for the government and defense establishment. However, internal Amazon documents show that the company was quietly lobbying Israel to allow it to handle classified material from its military and spy agencies.
Amazon's involvement with Israeli weapons makers has raised concerns about potential liability under international law. Ioannis Kalpouzos, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, warned that even if there is no genocidal intent, Amazon could still be held accountable for aiding the principal to commit genocide.
The Intercept reported last year that Google had also bid on Project Nimbus, with leadership expressing anxieties about being kept in the dark about how its technology was being used. Similarly, Amazon's internal financial materials indicate that the company sold cloud services to both Rafael and IAI at discounted rates.
Rafael, a state-owned weapons firm, has been implicated in killing civilians, including children. In 2024, Israel bombed a refugee camp with what analysts later assessed was a 2,000-pound SPICE-guided bomb, killing at least 19 Palestinians. The company's electro-optically guided Spike family of missiles are designed to both punch through and destroy heavily armored tanks or kill humans.
IAI, another state-owned weapons firm, is best known for co-developing Israel's anti-rocket Iron Dome system alongside Rafael. The company also manufactures a wide array of military aircraft, including its Heron line of drones – which the company has boasted about being used to great effect in Israel's war on Gaza.
Amazon proclaims broad commitments to international human rights values but declined to comment on whether it conducted a human rights impact assessment pertaining to selling its services to weapons companies whose products are used in a war widely assessed to be genocidal.
The documents reviewed by The Intercept indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel's nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank, where Israeli military occupation, population displacement, and settlement construction is widely considered illegal under international law.
As Amazon continues to expand its business with authoritarian regimes around the world, questions will be raised about the company's moral obligations. With the US government moving further away from human rights standards every day, it remains to be seen whether this multinational corporation will become complicit in a new era of repression.
In a shocking revelation, Amazon has been found to be providing cloud computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers – Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israeli Aerospace Industries – whose munitions have devastated the Gaza Strip. This comes amid allegations that these companies are linked to genocide, with experts claiming that Israel's military used their products to kill civilians in recent years.
The Israeli Ministry of Finance had previously declared that Project Nimbus was a "military program" aimed at providing an all-encompassing cloud solution for the government and defense establishment. However, internal Amazon documents show that the company was quietly lobbying Israel to allow it to handle classified material from its military and spy agencies.
Amazon's involvement with Israeli weapons makers has raised concerns about potential liability under international law. Ioannis Kalpouzos, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, warned that even if there is no genocidal intent, Amazon could still be held accountable for aiding the principal to commit genocide.
The Intercept reported last year that Google had also bid on Project Nimbus, with leadership expressing anxieties about being kept in the dark about how its technology was being used. Similarly, Amazon's internal financial materials indicate that the company sold cloud services to both Rafael and IAI at discounted rates.
Rafael, a state-owned weapons firm, has been implicated in killing civilians, including children. In 2024, Israel bombed a refugee camp with what analysts later assessed was a 2,000-pound SPICE-guided bomb, killing at least 19 Palestinians. The company's electro-optically guided Spike family of missiles are designed to both punch through and destroy heavily armored tanks or kill humans.
IAI, another state-owned weapons firm, is best known for co-developing Israel's anti-rocket Iron Dome system alongside Rafael. The company also manufactures a wide array of military aircraft, including its Heron line of drones – which the company has boasted about being used to great effect in Israel's war on Gaza.
Amazon proclaims broad commitments to international human rights values but declined to comment on whether it conducted a human rights impact assessment pertaining to selling its services to weapons companies whose products are used in a war widely assessed to be genocidal.
The documents reviewed by The Intercept indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel's nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank, where Israeli military occupation, population displacement, and settlement construction is widely considered illegal under international law.
As Amazon continues to expand its business with authoritarian regimes around the world, questions will be raised about the company's moral obligations. With the US government moving further away from human rights standards every day, it remains to be seen whether this multinational corporation will become complicit in a new era of repression.
I'm so shocked by this revelation! Amazon's involvement with Israeli weapons manufacturers is like something straight out of a conspiracy thriller 
. It's hard to fathom that the same company that prides itself on being a champion of innovation and technology could be complicit in supporting human rights abuses.
. It's like Amazon is profiting from the suffering of innocent people, which is just not right. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good deal as much as the next person, but this is different.
, when in reality it seems like they were more interested in expanding their business into a new market. And with Google bidding on Project Nimbus too, it just shows how far these companies are willing to go to get their hands on the tech.
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what if we hold them accountable for aiding in the genocide tho? it's not like israel is gonna stop using their tech just because amazon says oh no our conscience is bothered 
and I'm like totally shook. how can a company like Amazon just keep it 100 with human rights values but still get complicit in stuff like this? 
i mean, isn't there some liability issue at play here? 
. I mean, who needs cloud computing when you've got human rights to consider? 
Their lack of transparency is just shady - didn't they do a basic human rights impact assessment before selling services to these companies? 
It's not like Google didn't have the same concerns last year... what changed? 
and have you ever noticed how weird it is when the toppings are all perfectly uniform? like who makes sure those exact amounts of pepperoni and mushrooms get added to every pie?! anyway back to Amazon... I'm kinda surprised they're not saying anything about this whole thing, seems pretty shady to me 
I guess you could say they're really "hosting" some serious human rights issues 
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. It's not like they're just selling cloud computing services, they're profiting from a war that's been labeled as genocide 
. Newsflash, Amazon: you're not above the law just because you're a big corporation 
This is just getting outta hand... Amazon's involvement with Israel's military and its genocidal actions in Gaza is sickening. The fact that they were selling cloud services to these companies at discounted rates is just rubbing salt in the wound. And what really gets my goat is that they're trying to brush it off by saying they didn't do a human rights impact assessment... like that's gonna cut it? 
. I mean, who knew that their cloud computing services were being used by companies involved in war crimes? It's like they're profiting from people suffering and it just doesn't sit right with me. I've been using their services for years and I had no idea that my data was being sold to Israel's military and spy agencies.
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