Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a scalable object storage service provided by AWS that enables users to store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web. It is widely used for a variety of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about hackers, breaches and enterprise security. Ever since 2012 I’ve watched with alacrity as the velocity and scale of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock S3 data insights effortlessly with AWS' rich metadata capture; query objects by key, size, tags, and more using Athena, Redshift, and Spark at scale. Customers will benefit from capturing ...

In March of this year, Hobby Lobby, a national arts and crafts retailer, had 138GB of data, including payment card info and physical addresses, plucked out of an open Amazon S3 bucket. Events like ...

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.