Is it permitted to build a mobile app that aggregates AWS News & Blog content?

While I can provide some information about AWS news resources, I cannot provide legal advice regarding intellectual property rights or licensing for republishing AWS content in a mobile app.

AWS does offer several ways to stay updated with their news and blog content. You can subscribe to the AWS News Blog and What's New with AWS through RSS feeds or email notifications. These resources provide information on new service and feature releases, and AWS encourages users to follow these channels to stay informed about the latest developments.

AWS also offers a Cloud Intelligence Dashboards feature that includes an AWS News Feeds dashboard. This dashboard provides recent AWS feeds including What's New, Blog Posts, Videos, and Security Bulletins. You can deploy this dashboard in your AWS account and even embed it in your internal websites. The dashboard allows filtering news by AWS service, feed type, and category.

For specific questions about legal permissions, restrictions, or guidelines for republishing AWS content in an external app, I would recommend contacting AWS directly through your account team or AWS Support. They can provide guidance on AWS's official position regarding the use of their content in third-party applications.
Sources
AWS News Feeds - Cloud Intelligence Dashboards on AWS
COST01-BP07 Keep up-to-date with new service releases - AWS Well-Architected Framework (2023-04-10)
COST01-BP07 Keep up-to-date with new service releases - AWS Well-Architected Framework
COST01-BP07 Keep up-to-date with new service releases - AWS Well-Architected Framework

Good question — this is something a lot of developers wonder about when working with AWS content. AWS does provide RSS feeds for their news and blogs (for example, you can grab the AWS News Blog feed directly), which is generally the safest way to aggregate their content. Using the official RSS ensures you’re pulling publicly available information in the format AWS intends for syndication.

That said, if you’re planning to republish full articles inside your app rather than just titles, snippets, and links back to the original post, it’s best to review the AWS Site Terms of Use or check with AWS directly. Most companies are okay with aggregation as long as you give proper attribution and link back, but copying full content could violate their intellectual property guidelines.

If you want to be 100% safe, open a support ticket or email AWS PR/legal — they’re usually quick to clarify these use cases.

Yes, you can generally aggregate AWS news/blog content — but follow these best practices:

Use the official RSS feeds for AWS blogs/news rather than scraping HTML. This ensures you respect their distribution format.

Always link back to the original AWS article and provide proper attribution (“Source: AWS Blog”).

Avoid copying full articles verbatim inside your app — show the title, snippet, maybe an image, then link to AWS for the full read.

For peace of mind, you can check the AWS Site Terms of Use or open a support ticket asking about content reuse. Most devs just use RSS + linking, which AWS seems to encourage.