Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels said AWS provided multiple services to help customers identify if their data was being stored appropriately and flag any possible problems, but the decision about which settings to use lay with those clients.
“I’m not going to look at your data thinking like ‘hey, these are cat videos, maybe you shouldn’t do that’.” He added that customers should use tighter security controls for sensitive data such as credit card information. The alleged Capital One hacker, for example, was able to access the firm’s data due to a wrongly-configured web application firewall, U.S. prosecutors have said.
Vogels said the AWS system warned customers with a “massive red button” when they configured online storage containers - known as buckets - to be accessible by anyone online, a setting deliberately chosen for some products and applications.
And charge u for using it
Thanks for the tip Amazon: it’s up to me to protect my personal data from those who would abuse it *adds Amazon cloud to “banned” list* There... I feel safer already
Hey amazon. I have a message from Mothercare for you.....
Just as Matt Hancock plans to weaponise all of our children’s data by offering whole genome sequencing for every child. Modern eugenics or personalised medicine? AMA ethics journal asked.