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 ...

AWS recently introduced S3 Files, which lets users mount an Amazon S3 bucket and access its data through a standard file system interface. Applications can read and write files using standard file ...

In the wake of several high-profile data leaks, Amazon Web Services warned customers Wednesday to re-examine S3 storage drives with policies allowing their contents to be shared with the world. AWS ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Account Regional Namespaces for Amazon S3 General Purpose Buckets. This allows customers to create bucket names in a reserved namespace per account and region ...

Attackers can gain access to AWS accounts or sensitive data by creating in advance S3 storage buckets with predictable names that will be automatically used by various services and tools. Researchers ...

Since its launch in 2006, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service — S3 — has spread like wildfire. Used worldwide for storing everything from personal photo libraries to government personnel data, S3 ...

If you’re using Amazon Web Services and your S3 storage bucket can be reached from the open web, you’d do well not to pick a generic name for that space. Avoid “example,” skip “change_me,” don’t even ...

Cloud misconfigurations expose organizations to significant risk, according to a new analysis of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets conducted by Lightspin, a cloud security ...