As Tim has just demonstrated, Amazon Web Services appears to be a source of Spam emails (albeit based only on a random sample of 3 such emails). Conclusion? AWS is making it too easy for the spammers to send Spam via AWS.
It is absolutely self-evident that stopping these emails from entering the Global e-mail system would be a much more efficient means of culling this traffic than relying upon the multiple receiving services tackling the problem in a multitude of varying ways.
So, should we all be writing to Jeff Bezos of Amazon – the world’s richest man until recently – to tell him to do something about it? Hmmm. He may be somewhat preoccupied with his current divorce settlement which is reportedly costing him $70 Billion and thus promotes Bill Gates back to the number 1 spot. Don’t hold your breath.