Amazon S3 Buckets. For starters, it's worth understanding what, in this context, a "bucket" is. Perhaps the simplest way to think of it is like a "folder" on a PC.

Facepalm: Amazon S3 buckets, part of the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, are great for storing and managing huge amounts of data at scale, but they can also become a financial and security ...

Rather, he credited Amazon S3 account holders who have failed to set their buckets to private — or to put it more bluntly, organizations that have embraced the cloud without fully understanding it.

Amazon S3, a storage service provided by AWS, Amazon's cloud computing service, requires you to create a bucket to upload data such as photos and videos. Software engineer Maciej Pocwierz reported ...

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 ...

Amazon has also released a preview version of S3 Metadata. The service collects metadata from objects that are uploaded to a bucket and transfers it to a queryable, read-only table.

Indeed, S3 has the option to provide data over the web, if configured to do so. So, this is not an AWS issue, but one of stupidity, naïveté, or ignorance by people running their S3 instances.

Friendly warnings left in unsecured Amazon S3 buckets which expose private data. Ethical hackers are warning businesses who use Amazon S3 cloud storage if they have left data exposed for anyone to ...