Danger Cloud
- by Vince
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The benefits of cloud are amazing and I think that is fairly common knowledge at this point but there are also some associated dangers. I think first and foremost, the most dangerous aspect of cloud is the simplicity in which resources can be stood up. Let's say you need 10TB of storage quickly. Gone are the days of ordering a physical server, or even server software, and with a few mouse clicks, you have an endless amount of storage. It is so simple that regular users create and manage resources.
Somewhere along the way, those managing said storage containers misunderstood the term "public" on S3 buckets. That lead to private data being exposed on the Internet and a number of talks were given on the subject. For a time, S3 buckets had big, bold, text stating the status of the buckets. Those days have passed and I think most buckets are properly configured but the problems don't end with S3.