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Leaky Amazon S3 Buckets: The Lessons We Should Learn

Posted on October 4, 2017October 4, 2017 By Davey Winder

With data regarding millions of users becoming visible to anyone courtesy of leaky Amazon S3 buckets, who is to blame?

Multiple enterprises all discovering that information stored on Amazon S3 was being leaked to the public was never going to be good news for Amazon. In the cut-throat world of the cloud, even at the biggest end of the provider spectrum, this could be a reputational disaster. Assuming, that is, the Amazon buckets really were leaky…

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Analysis Tags:Amazon, cloud, Data, Enterprise

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