The fact that handlers can fake a "hit" wherever and whenever they want is the entire point, and also the reason they resist moving over to technical solutions. Those technologies also come with logging, which is another point against them as far as cops are concerned.
It's always been about control and cruelty.
Relevant part of the article - they're not going near AWS or the entertainment/filming side of things, just the retail side it looks like.
Even if Amazon loses every part of a lawsuit like this it won't materially affect their bottom line, so the headline seems like clickbait to me.