Amazon Luna is Amazon’s push into cloud gaming, letting people stream games without a console. It’s tied into the same massive data infrastructure that powers AWS, with all the surveillance, military contracts, and worker exploitation that come with it. By controlling the platform, distribution, and hardware integrations, Amazon positions itself to dominate yet another corner of digital life while deepening its extractive labor and political ties.
Amazon is rated High Impact because its harms are systemic and interlocking.
Environmental Harm: Delivery fleets, aviation cargo, and data centers generate massive emissions and plastic waste, while public pledges mask lobbying against climate regulation.
Human Rights Violations: Workers face surveillance, injury-level quotas, and unsafe delivery speeds. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere face wage theft and coercion.
Military & Conflict Complicity: AWS is central to surveillance states. Project Nimbus embeds Amazon in Israel’s occupation and war crimes, supplying AI and data services to its military and government.
The result: consumer spending that powers a machine which entrenches inequality, accelerates climate collapse, and sustains state violence worldwide.