Data lakes have become popular in some organizations as they provide a centralized repository that allows companies to store structured and unstructured data at scale. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service ...

An analysis of Amazon Web Services storage containers reveals troubling trend of misconfigured S3 buckets that leak data. Reasons why this keeps on happening vary. But, Detectify Labs believes many ...

AWS took a lot of heat when its S3 storage component went down for several hours on Tuesday, and rightly so, but today they published a post-mortem explaining exactly what happened complete with ...

The apparent inability of organisations to correctly and appropriately secure the data they hold in cloud storage instances has once again been made painfully obvious with the exposure of millions of ...

Carlos Rivas has a background in Software Development and he has worked as an independent Cloud Consultant helping migrate California community colleges to the cloud. He is currently an AWS Instructor ...

Everyone makes mistakes. But working at Amazon Web Services means an incorrectly entered input can lead to a massive outage that cripples popular websites and services. That’s apparently what happened ...

Thousands of resumes and job applications from U.S. military veterans, law enforcement, and others were leaked by a recruiting vendor in an unsecured AWS S3 bucket. Thousands of resumes and job ...

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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.