

AWS S3 Outage and Critical Infrastructure Attacks
Yesterday the AWS team released a summary of why their S3 services in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST1) region were disrupted and some of the steps they’re taking to ensure it doesn’t happen again – in that service region or others. For an outage that affected more than half the top 100 retail sites on the Internet, the hiccups that occurred because of Amazon AWS’ S3 failures earlier this week went by with relatively little public notice or media scrutiny. As organizations con