Amazon affiliate rules, as written

Re-hosting Amazon's images is prohibited. Resizing them is the one permissionThe 24 hours everyone quotes attaches to the link, not to the image. The image file gets no storage window at all, and a proportional resize is the only edit the program permits.

Amazon publishes no PA-API shutdown date. The real gate is ten salesAmazon's own docs banner said April 30th, then said May 15th, then the page stopped resolving. No current Amazon page carries a date, and what actually stands in a new site's way is an eligibility rule instead.

Amazon does not ban link shorteners. 6(w) is a manner testI read the Operating Agreement and the Program Policies. The shortener clause is a manner test, the cloaking clause points at Amazon, not at your reader.