Statement on Amazon's sales to Israeli military companies
October 28, 2025 | Press Releases
Internal Amazon documents obtained by The Intercept reveal that Amazon provided cloud computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers during the war in Gaza. Tech workers at Amazon published the following statement in response to this reporting:
Two of Israel’s premier state-owned military companies, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, are now verified as obligatory customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) via Project Nimbus. These two Israeli military companies are also the biggest contributors of drones and weapons to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Rafael has reported record revenues in both 2023 and 2024, which its executives explicitly attribute to Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Workers have long known that Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google’s joint $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli military and government, ‘has been a military program from the start.’ Via Project Nimbus, Amazon has played an active role in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza not just in providing its own technology and cloud storage capacity to Israel, but also in providing its cloud to third-party Israeli military contractors that have had a direct role in the murder of Palestinians.
While previous reporting revealed the existence of Amazon and Google’s commitment to Israeli war companies, these new revelations confirm Amazon has been directly selling war technology to both companies throughout Israel’s genocide.
Rafael, in particular, has been a key player. In September 2024, Israel bombed a refugee camp with a Rafael bomb that could flatten a suburban block. The attack, condemned by the UN, killed at least 19 Palestinians. Israel also used a drone-launched Rafael missile to kill seven World Central Kitchen aid workers.
Importantly, this new reporting exemplifies how cloud computing contracts like Project Nimbus obscure the tech supply chain for military contracts. This is by design. The model of supplying consumer and AI technology to militaries through “generic” cloud computing contracts helps tech executives obfuscate accountability and deny us, the workers who actually build the technology, a say in the impact of our labor.
Amazon is not only implicating its own technology in genocide, it is also implicating its cloud partners, like AI start-up Anthropic. Rafael used Claude, an LLM developed by Anthropic, because it was made available through its access to AWS. Companies like Anthropic cannot provide services through AWS without those same services being offered to the purveyors of weaponry for genocide, Rafael and IAI, thereby relinquishing their ability to enforce terms of service and ensure that their workers’ labor is not powering a genocide.
These contracts only serve to further enrich our Big Tech billionaire bosses at the cost of human lives. Cloud computing contracts intentionally make it difficult for companies to make human rights commitments that are real and reliable—not just toothless PR.
We, the Amazon workers who make this company run, want to know: Under the auspices of Project Nimbus, how else is the Israeli military using Amazon and Google’s technology and artificial intelligence tools to indiscriminately kill and injure more than ten percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza?
Amazon workers deserve to know how the technology we are building is deployed, by what actors, and for what ends. Yet our bosses at Amazon continue to ignore our longstanding demands for information and accountability about how our labor is being weaponized in its partnerships with Israel.
We will not stand for our labor contributing to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, nor for its illegal occupation of the West Bank and apartheid regime.
Our company should not be a military contractor or power state violence across the globe. That’s why we’re organizing against Amazon’s surveillance empire, and the tech we build being used for deportation, apartheid, & genocide — from the U.S. to Palestine.
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