Amazon’s cloud unit will no longer provide services to Parler, the social media platform popular with conservatives and extremists.
BuzzFeed first reported that Amazon Web Services will suspend Parler on Sunday before midnight. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the news to GeekWire.
BuzzFeed cited an email from AWS sent to Parler that stated how the site violated Amazon’s terms of service due to calls for violence.
Parler has become popular in recent months as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, which both banned President Trump last week following the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
Apple and Google have removed Parler from their respective app stores over the past few days. Apple said it received complaints that Parler was used to plan and coordinate the riots, BuzzFeed reported.
Getting booted from AWS would take Parler offline and means the site would need to find a new hosting service.
Parler CEO John Matze states that Parler may be unavailable for up to a week as they rebuild from scratch. pic.twitter.com/e2gP6BNmCI
— Parlertakes?? (@parlertakes) January 10, 2021
Workers getting it done: Amazon boots Parler off @awscloud
Like our peers at Twitter, Google, and Facebook, we demanded Amazon deplatform white supremacists using tech we work on as a bullhorn to incite violence and attack our democracy.https://t.co/fE8eK5RBSd @JohnPaczkowski https://t.co/FC3WsYIui3
— Amazon Employees For Climate Justice (@AMZNforClimate) January 10, 2021
So there's a lot of confusion about what Parler being kicked off of Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) means. Let me do a quick thread to explain it to folks who aren't deep in the technical weeds…
— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) January 10, 2021
