Is aws.com legit or a scam?
The official Amazon Web Services (AWS) website, an established global cloud infrastructure provider with over 30 years of domain history.
Score breakdown
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot displays a fully-rendered, professional website that visually aligns with the legitimate Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, showing no signs of malicious patterns.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional layout consistent with official Amazon Web Services branding
High-quality graphics and typography matching corporate standards
Functional navigation menu with links to AWS Marketplace and console sign-in
Standard support chat widget present in the bottom right corner
No visible urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or suspicious overlays
MT Intelligence
The domain was registered in 1995 and is owned by Amazon Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com. Our analysis confirms it is the primary entry point for AWS services, matching all official branding and infrastructure signatures. While our crawler noted a push-notification request, this is a standard feature for service updates on this platform and not a sign of malicious intent. All security engines in our antivirus network report the site as clean. We found no evidence of fraudulent activity originating from this specific domain.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for aws.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain aws.com registered January 12, 1995 (over 31 years old) to Amazon Technologies, Inc. via MarkMonitor; WHOIS shows US address and protected status.
- Official AWS site (aws.amazon.com) provides dedicated page for reporting suspicious/phishing emails claiming to be from Amazon/AWS.
- Multiple documented phishing campaigns impersonate AWS via fake suspension/billing emails and cloned login pages on unrelated domains (e.g., consoleportal.tech variants).
- Reddit threads in r/aws discuss users receiving suspicious emails appearing from AWS; some confirmed phishing, others legitimate account communications.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative scores found specifically for aws.com itself on major review/scam-checker sites; all reports target impersonators.
- AWS is a well-established subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., with public company information, Wikipedia entry, and LinkedIn presence confirming legitimacy.
- Detected 'Push-Notification Spam' label on scanned page does not match any web evidence of spam originating from aws.com; appears unrelated to the official domain.
- BleepingComputeropen
"Beware of Fake Amazon AWS Suspension Emails for Unpaid Bills. Attackers are capitalizing on this confusion by sending emails that pretend to be from Amazon AWS Support at postmaster@amazon.com and that use a subject of "Your service has now"
- PhishingTackleopen
"The hackers are using phishing emails disguised as an Amazon AWS account suspension notice to try and trick victims. ... The phishing email is simple and pretty convincing: it states that the victim’s AWS account has been suspended due to a"
- Wizopen
"Wiz Threat Research recently spotted a new phishing campaign targeting AWS accounts. ... the final credential harvesting page (https://signin.aws.consoleportal[.]tech/signin)."
- Summit Routeopen
"On December 22, 2019 I received two phishing emails made to look like they came from AWS. ... domains console.aws.amazon.com.console.home.2185421.niestas[.]de and signin.aws.amazon.com.redirect.https.254535.patrickniesters[.]com."
Registered to Amazon Technologies, Inc., P.O. Box 8102, Reno, NV 89507. Domain aws.com registered 1995-01-12 via MarkMonitor Inc.; expires 2027-01-11. Subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Technical checksdomain · encryption · redirects · server reputation
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
- Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://aws.com/
- 2302https://aws.com/
- 3301https://www.aws.com/
- 4200https://aws.amazon.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on aws.com and not a lookalike like a-ws.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on aws.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- aws.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. aws.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 238 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- aws.com is 31.5 years old, registered on 1/12/1995 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report aws.com as clean.
- No. aws.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- aws.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. aws.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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