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>>cebert+(OP)
Host an event you where you're hoping to co-opt third party developers into using and evangelizing your platform. Provide a lousy interface to navigate the event. Send cease and desist notices to those same developers when they try to improve it. Hmm.

>>tyingq+B1
Well, for one reason, having third-party apps for an AWS event that might confuse users about how official/genuine what they're saying is... could be a big security problem.

(For example, you just know that some users would be willing to enter their IAM credentials when prompted at some point.)

There's also all the marketing data leakage, and access to the users to promote other companies' products, or maybe even get an affiliate/intermediate cut for AWS sales that were already AWS's leads to begin with.

>>neilv+U2
There's a fair amount of precedent for third party sites hosting schedules, descriptions, and other info about other entities events. Google, as one example, has quite a few widget type things that pop up if you use a search query asking about specific events, concert tours, etc. Try "upcoming conferences", "taylor swift concert dates". Or, similar things like airline and train schedules.