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Amazon S3 is a scalable cloud object storage service from AWS used to store and retrieve data such as files, backups, and datasets via APIs or buckets.
Amazon S3, S3 Tables and S3 Vectors can now be created from the Vercel Marketplace and v0, with no AWS console step for policies or credentials. Functions trade short-lived OIDC tokens with AWS STS, so no static keys sit in the project.
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Alluxio's S3 REST proxy skipped AWS signature checks by default, a flaw NVD scores 9.3 as CVE-2026-79787. An attacker needs only a network route to the port, so internal reachability decides which clusters are exposed until they upgrade.
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AWS Lambda's recursive loop detection reached the European Sovereign Cloud on September 10, 2026, cutting S3, SQS and SNS chains at about 16 invocations. A dev.to analysis shows that loops through other services, old SDKs or wide fan-out still get through, so eusc-de-east-1 teams need limits of their own.
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Stave flagged 47 security findings in the documented AWS defaults of Mastodon, Discourse and Chatwoot, according to a dev.to post. None of the three configures bucket encryption, access logging or Public Access Block, so whoever creates the bucket has to add them.
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AWS has embedded DuckDB in Aurora PostgreSQL from versions 17.11 and 18.6, so one SQL query can join live rows with Iceberg and Parquet tables in S3. Reverse-ETL jobs that exist only for that join can be retired if the database instance has room for the lake scans.
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Databricks says Lakebase restores Postgres in seconds even at 100 TB by creating a branch at a timestamp. The figure times branch creation, so it matches a finished RDS restore only if that branch serves production reads at once.
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RatHat's malware console now feeds stolen texts to Google's Gemini to estimate each victim's bank balance and rank who to rob first, security firm Cleafy says. Cleafy has traced nearly 100 deployments since April 2026 and found nothing that moves money.
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Four HackerOne reports cited in a dev.to analysis trace to S3 write scope set wider than the one object an upload needs. Only one of them is the starts-with key condition that turns a signed upload form into write access across a whole prefix.
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ClarityCheck exposed 450GB of photos plus a second leak of emails and phone numbers, according to researcher Jeremiah Fowler. The company disputes the word "exposed."
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AWS's Java extended clients for large SQS and SNS messages pull Jackson versions with seven known advisories via a library last released in March 2024. Kotlin services now have ports on Maven Central that take Jackson out of that code path.
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AWS lets an S3 presigned URL live up to seven days, and anyone holding a leaked one can use it until it expires or its signer is revoked. Revoking the signer kills every URL it made, so short expiries and a bucket-level cap on signature age are the practical defence.
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Perplexity moved its search serving tier from DynamoDB to CobbleDB, an in-house Rust store, and cut median batch reads from 31.4ms to 5.60ms. The cost case carries to other retrieval teams only at similar payload sizes and request rates.
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Kaspersky found two cross-platform JavaScript RATs, NodeRabbit and PollCat, reaching engineers in aviation and fintech through fake recruiters, from a group that until now shipped native C, C++ and Go.
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TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 is generally available as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. The managed ingest does frames, transcription and vectors, and its 4-second segmentation default sets your retrieval granularity.
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Reading a 600 GB checkpoint from local NVMe at 7 GB/s takes about 86 seconds, so the network stops gating scale-out on warm nodes. The first fill still costs the full download. The slowest node sets it.
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A health dashboard update from AWS reports customer data lost for good in the Middle East. The account carrying its wording to me is a Thai-language post that a model drafted and a human editor checked.
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ESET says the group dropped McRat and Trochilus in 2025 and hit government targets in Belgium, Italy, Serbia and Poland. Its two new backdoors call home to Discord and the Microsoft Graph API.
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Amazon's concurrency sweeps push rising traffic at a SageMaker inference endpoint and report where throughput stops improving. Three vLLM settings in the sample deployment decide whether that curve transfers to your traffic.
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ServiceTitan switched off Podium's integration after nine years and, SaaStr says, kept essentially every shared account. Inside Salesforce's quarter, the data segment added $730 million and the record segment about $450 million.
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A dev.to post argues that Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables let you keep the managed engine while owning the Parquet in your own bucket. The same post says the catalog stays Snowflake's, and that 50,000-inserts-per-second ingest should not move.
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Security · September 17, 2026 · One report1 publisher