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BDS Malaysia is urging the Malaysian government to end its contracts with Amazon Web Services, following the ban on civil servants using Waze. The group says the government should apply the same security standard to both companies.

The Rakyat Post reports that BDS Malaysia links its request to Project Nimbus, a cloud computing contract involving AWS, Google and the Israeli government that includes cloud and AI services. The group argues that government data hosted by AWS could pose a security risk; that is its claim, not an established finding in the report. This is a new pressure campaign, not a reported change to AWS contracts or a government decision. The distinction matters: a call to cut ties is a political demand, not evidence that Malaysia plans to act.

Discuss: Should governments treat cloud and AI contracts as a security issue requiring a public review, or keep them separate from campaigns targeting individual companies?

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