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Amazon Web Services and the zombie apocalypse

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From the Amazon Web Services acceptable use policy (paragraph break added):

57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat.

However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.

Very thoughtful! Thanks to Larry Seltzer for the pointer.

(As commenter DavidM in Cal notes, Amazon founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, might know something we don't.)