Amazon Web Service's Ts & Cs upgraded for zombie apocalypse

AWS EULA keeps all bases covered

People frequently complain about software and cloud EULAs - end-user licence agreements - but think about it from the side of the company: especially with cloud, it has to take account of every last stupid thing someone might be motivated to do with its software and/or services.

That, perhaps, partly accounts for the latest changes to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ts and Cs. It has just thrown open its games development platform Lumberyard - based on Crytek's CryEngine so it ought to be good - and updated its Service Terms accordingly.

"The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat," it states.

Fair enough.

It continues: "This restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the US Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to re-animate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organised civilisation."

Some might argue that's already occurred, citing the US Presidential Election as proof, with all that's missing the certificate from the CDC.