Ask HN: Currently working on a side project for AWS, the product's domain name has the word "aws" included. Will I get any legal issue from Amazon? Is it advisable to have the word "AWS"? Please advise
Their trademark guidelines expressly forbid this ("11. No Combination."): <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/</a><p>This had us rename our eBook about developing and running Spring Boot applications on AWS from the original working title "AWS 101" to "Stratospheric" (<a href="https://stratospheric.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://stratospheric.dev/</a> ), which in my opinion is a much better name, too.
Technically it runs afoul of their rules. Practically, I started <a href="https://www.lastweekinaws.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.lastweekinaws.com</a> four and a half years ago, with an alternate "cloud" based domain instead; my thinking was "give me grief, I'll migrate and then start talking about your competition."<p>I can say that they've never had an issue with my use of it to date, despite my extreme levels of sarcasm.
IANAL but I wouldn’t risk it. Especially as it’s AWS related stuff (rather than your name is Andrew William Smith or something)<p>Why not use cloud in place of AWS in the name?