Request your personal information

> We’ve received and are processing your request to access your personal data. We will provide your information to you as soon as we can. Usually, this should not take more than a month. In exceptional cases, for example if a request is more complex or if we are processing a high volume of requests, it might take longer, but if so we will notify you that there will be a delay.

I wonder what the formats are.

Also, is there a team of poor souls navigating internal bureaucracy to manually fulfill these requests? Is it a black hole?

A nice policy would be to decree "Every [property] in Amazon must provide an internally registered [endpoint] that speaks [protocol] serving requests consistent with [schema]. Request volume will be limited to at most [limit]." Require it for new stuff, and add it to the backlog for existing stuff.

Ah, but it wouldn't increase revenue, and everything is existing stuff. Still, I like the idea.

> Usually, this should not take more than a month.

This tells me that there are people involved in manually packaging it up somehow.

interesting how the request takes about a month to process.. it's almost... almost like... they dont really wanna do it but have to

Please notice, at all companies (I don't know about AWS) that I have worked for each GDPR request eats up a few man-days of work internally.

Some companies getting hit a lot by GDPR have likely automated it, but even a big company (that I know of) with 100k+ private customers (that all have the right) only receives a few requests a quarter, usually by angry customers..

This AWS thingy might not be GDPR, but it might have the same impact on internal resources..

Just because it is free and your right, please consider if you wanna to be a resource hog..