Cloud Security Alliance

AWS Ends SSE-C Encryption, and a Ransomware Vector

SSE-C stands (well, stood) for “Server Side Encryption- Customer-provided keys”. It allowed you to provide an encryption key ...
Newswire

MinIO AIStor Sets New Standard for AI and Data-Intensive Workloads with Industry-First AWS S3 Express API Support

Enterprise object storage with built-in replication brings S3 Express API performance to the entire data lakehouse, at no extra cost REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 29, 2025 /CNW/ -- MinIO, the leader in ...
InfoQ

Amazon S3 Vectors Reaches GA, Introducing "Storage-First" Architecture for RAG

AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors, increasing per-index capacity forty-fold to 2 billion ...

AWS claims 90% vector cost savings with S3 Vectors GA, calls it 'complementary' - analysts split on what it means for vector databases

Despite the aggressive cost claims and dramatic scale improvements, AWS is positioning S3 Vectors as a complementary storage tier rather than a direct replacement for specialized vector databases.
Dark Reading

Critical AWS Vulnerabilities Allow S3 Attack Bonanza

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 8 – Six critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services (AWS) could have allowed threat actors to target organizations with remote code execution (RCE), ...
Computer Weekly

Amazon S3 storage 101: Object storage in the cloud

For many years, the dominant protocols to access shared storage have been block and file. Block-based access provides the ability, as the name suggests, to update individual blocks of data on a ...