In direct violation of Palestinian rights, Amazon's AWS provided the cloud services for Israel's Pegasus spyware until 2021 when news of Pegasus Project broke — and continues to do so for the Blue Wolf surveillance app (alongside the Red Wolf camera system deployed in 2022 - also see the Amnesty report), which allows IOF soldiers to track and restrict the movement of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, by taking photos of them to match on military and intelligence databases.
Also in 2021, alongside Google, Amazon's AWS was jointly awarded the $1.2bn cloud computing project Project Nimbus. The project involves providing cloud services to the Israeli government and military, and “top Israeli officials appear to think the Google and Amazon contract provides important infrastructure for the country’s military.”
In October that year, a group of Amazon and Google employees began their No Tech for Apartheid campaign which has actively engaged in protesting Project Nimbus. In June 2024, announced a student pledge where “more than 1,100 self-identified STEM students and young workers from more than 120 universities have signed a pledge to not take jobs or internships at Google or Amazon until the companies end their involvement in Project Nimbus”.
In August 2023, it was announced that Amazon plans to invest roughly $7.2bn in Israel through 2037 and launch its AWS data centres there. Amazon's investment in Israel would “contribute about $13.9 billion to Israel's gross domestic product”.
Amazon is also financially backed by Vanguard, which invests heavily in the deeply complicit Lockheed Martin and is the third largest shareholder in Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.