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Greenpeace Targets Big Tech Over Controversial Cloud Customers

Greenpeace published a report titled “Amazon’s Toxic Web Services” that analyzes customer relationships of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using exclusion lists from the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (Norges), Urgewald and the NGO PAX, Greenpeace matched AWS customers against controversial-company lists and identified overlaps. The organisation reports that, among a set of 263 companies, at least 70 are on Norges’ exclusion list and there are customer relationships with at least 100 firms flagged as controversial or “high concern” by Urgewald and PAX. Greenpeace calls on AWS and other cloud infrastructure providers to stop providing services to those companies. Mauricio Vargas, Greenpeace’s finance and economics expert, is quoted explaining the organisation’s reasoning about platform responsibility.

Greenpeace Urges More Ethics from Cloud Providers

Greenpeace published a report titled “Amazon’s Toxic Web Services” analyzing Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) customer relationships and calling on AWS and other cloud providers to stop offering services to companies the NGOs consider harmful. Using exclusion lists from the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (Norges), Urgewald and PAX, Greenpeace compared 263 customers and identified at least 70 firms listed by Norges and relationships with at least 100 companies flagged as controversial or ‘high concern’ by Urgewald and PAX. The report names example customers including JBL, Palantir and Anduril. Mauricio Vargas, Greenpeace finance and economics expert, discusses the organisation’s goals beyond disclosure and stresses provider responsibility for enabling controversial business practices.