S3 is a pillar upon which many other Amazon cloud services are built. But plenty of companies that migrate to the cloud each day have no prior AWS experience, which makes S3 a big security concern. S3 ...

With the sheer amount of data and users leveraging AWS, it’s easy for misconfigurations to slip through the cracks. One commonly overlooked area is the naming of S3 buckets. AWS S3 bucket names are ...

What is an Amazon S3 bucket? An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) platform. It provides object-based storage, where ...

Services like Amazon’s S3 have made it easier and cheaper than ever to store large quantities of data in the cloud. Used properly, S3 buckets are a useful tool that can save time and money. Used ...

AWS’s Trusted Advisor tool, which is supposed to warn customers if their (cloud) S3 storage buckets are publicly exposed, could be “tricked” into reporting them as not exposed when they actually are, ...

Ever since 2012 I’ve watched with alacrity as the velocity and scale of data breaches grew at a pace that almost seemed a daily occurrence. Well, if I’m being fair, I wasn’t enjoying the breaches that ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that all customers can now freely check whether their S3 buckets are leaking stored data. “Previously available only to Business and Enterprise support ...

Using a combination of relatively low-tech techniques and tools, security researchers have discovered that they can access the contents of one in six Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Those ...

New research from cloud security firm Ermetic shows that nearly all businesses have identities that, if compromised, would place at least 90 percent of the S3 buckets in their AWS account at risk.