# Amazon Web Services
**Aliases:** AWS; AWS KMS
**Entity class:** Company and cloud infrastructure provider
**Integration priority:** P1
**Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]
**Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]
## Definition
**Amazon Web Services** — Amazon's cloud-computing organization; host-side context includes Trainium capacity, agent runtimes, archival storage, workload identity, orchestration, and confidential execution.
This entry treats the technology or concept as a concrete part, precedent, or comparison within host-infrastructure analysis; it does not by itself establish consciousness transfer, personal continuity, or a company's intent to build either.
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## Relationships
### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10
**Resolved aliases:** `AWS`, `AWS KMS`
**Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]
**Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]
**Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]
**Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]]
#### Host-infrastructure integration
Amazon's cloud-computing organization; host-side context includes Trainium capacity, agent runtimes, archival storage, workload identity, orchestration, and confidential execution.
#### Outgoing typed edges
- **HR-0087 — `co_develops` → [[wiki/Stateful Runtime Environment|Stateful Runtime Environment]]** — **VERIFIED EXTERNAL**; evidence `WEB_OPENAI_STATEFUL`, `WEB_OPENAI_AMAZON`. Runs natively in Amazon Bedrock.
- **HR-0095 — `exclusive_third_party_cloud_distribution_for` → [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]]** — **VERIFIED EXTERNAL**; evidence `WEB_OPENAI_AMAZON`. Current partnership term.
- **HR-0149 — `releases_keys_to` → `authorized attested enclave state`** — **VERIFIED EXTERNAL**; evidence `WEB_NITRO_KMS`, `WEB_NITRO_FLOW`. Policy can depend on enclave PCR measurements.
- **HR-1420 — `cross_threads` → [[wiki/Host–Residual Architecture|Host–Residual Architecture]]** — **HIGH VALUE CROSS THREAD**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. AWS spans Trainium, stateful runtime, confidential execution, identity, networking and deep archival storage.
#### Incoming typed edges
- **HR-1589 — [[wiki/UALink|UALink Consortium board ecosystem]] `includes` → this entry** — **VERIFIED EXTERNAL**; evidence `WEB_UALINK_MEMBERS`. Board member.
#### Epistemic boundary
Evidence status and relationship type are recorded on each typed edge; graph candidates remain labeled **CANDIDATE — DO NOT PROMOTE**.
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