Spy Stuff: Setting The Tape Conduct On Bloomberg Businessweek’S Erroneous Article (Amzn)

From Amazon:

Today, Bloomberg BusinessWeek published a storey claiming that AWS was aware of modified hardware or malicious chips inward SuperMicro motherboards inward Elemental Media’s hardware at the fourth dimension Amazon acquired Elemental inward 2015, together with that Amazon was aware of modified hardware or chips inward AWS’s mainland People's Republic of China Region.

As nosotros shared amongst Bloomberg BusinessWeek multiple times over the concluding duo months, this is untrue. At no time, yesteryear or present, convey nosotros always constitute whatsoever issues relating to modified hardware or malicious chips inward SuperMicro motherboards inward whatsoever Elemental or Amazon systems. Nor convey nosotros engaged inward an investigation amongst the government.

There are thus many inaccuracies inward ‎this article equally it relates to Amazon that they’re difficult to count. We volition advert alone a few of them here. First, when Amazon was considering acquiring Elemental, nosotros did a lot of due diligence amongst our ain safety team, together with besides commissioned a unmarried external safety companionship to create a safety assessment for us equally well. That study did non position whatsoever issues amongst modified chips or hardware. As is typical amongst nigh of these audits, it offered or thus recommended areas to remediate, together with nosotros fixed all critical issues earlier the acquisition closed. This was the sole external safety study commissioned. Bloomberg has admittedly never seen our commissioned safety study nor whatsoever other (and refused to percentage whatsoever details of whatsoever purported other study amongst us).

The article besides claims that later on learning of hardware modifications together with malicious chips inward Elemental servers, nosotros conducted a network-wide audit of SuperMicro motherboards together with discovered the malicious chips inward a Beijing information center. This claim is similarly untrue. The kickoff together with nigh obvious argue is that nosotros never constitute modified hardware or malicious chips inward Elemental servers. Aside from that, nosotros never constitute modified hardware or malicious chips inward servers inward whatsoever of our information centers. And, this notion that nosotros sold off the hardware together with datacenter inward mainland People's Republic of China to our partner Sinnet because nosotros wanted to rid ourselves of SuperMicro servers is absurd. Sinnet had been running these information centers since nosotros ‎launched inward China, they owned these information centers from the start, together with the hardware nosotros “sold” to them was a transfer-of-assets understanding mandated yesteryear novel mainland People's Republic of China regulations for non-Chinese cloud providers to buy the farm along to operate inward China.

Amazon employs stringent safety standards across our provide chain – investigating all hardware together with software prior to going into production together with performing regular safety audits internally together with amongst our provide chain partners. We farther strengthen our safety posture yesteryear implementing our ain hardware designs for critical components such equally processors, servers, storage systems, together with networking equipment....MORE