In the blog post announcing the report, Amazon Web Services Chief Information Security Officer Stephen Schmidt made it clear that the company was never part of the NSA's PRISM surveillance program. He also said Amazon believes search warrants should be a requirement if authorities want to access a customer's information, and that it won't support any legislation that mandates putting backdoors on websites. Schmidt, however, didn't explain why the corporation used to be very secretive about these numbers. It's even the last tech company in the Fortune 500 to come out with a transparency report, according to ZDNet, despite being criticized for years by industry watchdogs like the EFF.

Reading between the lines of Amazon's 1st transparency report, they've almost certainly received a NSL or FISA order. http://t.co/MRfT5dVdiQ — Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) June 13, 2015