AWS has new tool for those leaky S3 buckets so, yeah, you might need to reconfigure a few things

AWS has new tool for those leaky S3 buckets so, yeah, you might need to reconfigure a few things

Security a popular topic at Las Vegas event


re:Invent At its re:Invent event under way in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) dropped the veil on a new tool to help customers to avoid spewing data stored on its S3 (Simple Storage) service to world+dog.


"Access Analyzer for S3 is a new feature that monitors your access policies, ensuring that the policies provide only the intended access to your S3 resources," the cloud giant said.


Customers can enable Access Analyzer via a new option in the console for IAM (Identity and Access Management). The tool will then alert you when a bucket (an area of storage in S3) is configured to allow public access or access to other AWS accounts. The implication of the tool, of course, ..

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