All news with #aws s3 tag

🔐 A Trend Micro report warns that ransomware groups are shifting from on-premises targets to cloud object storage, particularly AWS S3, by abusing integrated encryption and key management. Attackers probe configurations from AWS-managed KMS keys to customer-provided and external key stores to encrypt or irreversibly lock data. The report urges hardening S3 settings, enforcing least privilege, enabling versioning and Object Lock, and isolating backups.

🔐 A Trend Micro analysis warns ransomware actors are increasingly targeting cloud storage by abusing AWS-native encryption and key management to render S3 data unrecoverable. Attackers probe buckets with disabled versioning or Object Lock, exploit wide write permissions, and weaponize SSE-KMS, SSE-C, BYOK and XKS to seize control of keys. Researchers recommend least-privilege IAM, enable versioning/Object Lock, isolate backups, and continuously monitor audit logs. An "assume breach" posture and short-lived credentials are urged to limit impact.

🔒 AWS Transfer Family web apps now support Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints, enabling private, in‑VPC access to your browser-based S3 file interface at no additional charge. Workforce users can connect through a VPC, AWS Direct Connect, or VPN so that file traffic remains inside your network boundary. Administrators can enforce controls with security groups and subnet-level NACLs, retaining full visibility and control over transfers. Configure and manage endpoints via the Transfer Family console, AWS CLI, or SDK.

🏷️ Amazon S3 now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC) for general purpose buckets, allowing organizations to use bucket tags to automatically manage permissions. Instead of constantly editing IAM or bucket policies, administrators can create policies that reference bucket tags and grant access by adding or modifying tags. Enable ABAC with the S3 PutBucketAbac API and manage tags via TagResource/UntagResource; you can also require tags at bucket creation to enforce standards. The feature is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost via the Console, REST API, CLI, SDK, and CloudFormation.

🔒 AWS now enables native cross-region connectivity for AWS PrivateLink, allowing Interface VPC endpoints to reach supported AWS services hosted in other Regions within the same partition. Service consumers can access S3, Route 53, ECR and more via private IPs in their VPCs without cross-region peering or traversing the public internet. This simplifies global private networking and supports data residency and security requirements.

🔒 Amazon S3 now provides a bucket-level default encryption configuration to enforce SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS for all write requests, allowing organizations to standardize server-side encryption types across buckets. The PutBucketEncryption API update lets you disable SSE-C on specific buckets or in CloudFormation templates. This capability is available in all AWS Regions and configurable via Console, SDK, API, or CLI. It helps simplify compliance and reduce misconfiguration risk.

🛡️ AWS has updated the Transfer Family Terraform module to support automated malware scanning workflows for files transferred to S3. The module provisions GuardDuty S3 Protection–based scan pipelines, dynamic routing based on results, and threat notifications in a single deployment. It preserves folder structure, allows granular S3 prefix targeting, and helps ensure only verified clean files reach applications and data lakes.

📂 Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, enabling data scientists and analysts to discover, process, and share unstructured data alongside structured datasets. Data publishers can grant read-only or read/write permissions when approving subscriptions or sharing S3 data, allowing processed outputs to be written back to the original bucket or folder. This feature is available in all Regions that support SageMaker Unified Studio and can be accessed via the studio UI, the Amazon DataZone API, SDK, or AWS CLI.

📊 Amazon CloudWatch metrics are now available for S3 Tables, providing visibility into storage, maintenance, and request activity. Metrics include daily storage and object counts, compaction bytes/objects processed, and minute‑level request measurements for operations, data transfer, errors, and latency. You can access these metrics via the CloudWatch console, AWS CLI, or CloudWatch API at the bucket, namespace, and individual table level; they are available in all Regions where S3 Tables is offered.

🔧 Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now included in Amazon Linux 2023, making it straightforward to install, update, and mount S3 buckets with a single command. Previously, users downloaded the Mountpoint package from GitHub, resolved dependencies, and managed updates manually; inclusion in AL2023 streamlines that workflow. The open source project is backed by AWS and offers 24/7 AWS cloud support for Business and Enterprise Support customers—consult the repository and documentation to get started.

🌐 Amazon now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for S3 Express One Zone gateway VPC endpoints, enabling access over IPv6 or DualStack without additional translation infrastructure. This applies in all Regions where the storage class exists at no extra cost. You can enable IPv6 for new or existing endpoints via Console, CLI, SDK, or CloudFormation. See the S3 User Guide to get started.

🌐 Amazon Web Services now supports IPv6 addresses for AWS PrivateLink Gateway and Interface VPC endpoints for Amazon S3. To enable IPv6 connectivity on new or existing S3 endpoints, set the IP address type to IPv6 or Dualstack; S3 will update route tables for gateway endpoints and provision ENIs with IPv6 for interface endpoints. IPv6 for S3 VPC endpoints is available in all AWS Commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional cost, and can be configured via the Console, CLI, SDK, or CloudFormation.

🔖Amazon S3 now supports tags on S3 Tables to enable attribute-based access control (ABAC) and cost allocation. Tags can be applied to table buckets and individual tables, letting you manage permissions for users and roles without frequent IAM or resource-policy updates. Tagging is available in all Regions where S3 Tables is offered and can be used via the Console, SDK, API, or CLI. Use tags to simplify governance and track costs.

📈 You can now monitor Mountpoint operations in observability tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. Mountpoint emits near real-time metrics (request count, request latency, and error types) over the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), so you can use the CloudWatch agent or an OpenTelemetry collector to publish metrics and build dashboards. Configure Mountpoint at mount time to stream per-EC2-instance metrics for proactive monitoring and faster troubleshooting.

🔒 Amazon S3 Access Grants are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions. The feature maps corporate identities—such as Microsoft Entra ID or AWS IAM principals—to S3 datasets, enabling administrators to automate and scale dataset access. This reduces manual policy overhead and helps ensure consistent, auditable permissions. Check the AWS Region Table and product page for regional availability and details.

🔐 Amazon S3 now supports conditional copy operations via the CopyObject API, enabling verification of an object's existence or content in the destination bucket before copying. You can supply the HTTP If-None-Match header to ensure the destination object does not exist, or If-Match with an ETag to validate content prior to copy. Administrators can enforce these checks using s3:if-match and s3:if-none-match bucket policy condition keys. This capability is available at no additional charge in all AWS Regions and removes the need for additional client-side coordination or pre-copy validation calls.

🔔Amazon S3 now emits AWS CloudTrail events for S3 Tables maintenance operations so you can track compaction and snapshot expiration. Maintenance activities are recorded as management events in CloudTrail, enabling auditing and monitoring of automatic optimization tasks. To monitor these events, create a trail and filter for eventType='AwsServiceEvents' and eventName='TablesMaintenanceEvent'. Events are available in all Regions where S3 Tables are offered.

📥 Amazon Redshift Auto-Copy is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Asia Pacific (Taipei). The feature lets you configure an integration to continuously detect and load new files from a specified Amazon S3 prefix into Redshift tables without requiring custom COPY pipelines or external tooling. Auto-Copy records previously loaded files to prevent duplicate ingestion and exposes job status and metrics via Redshift system tables for monitoring and troubleshooting.

🆕 Amazon has expanded S3 Metadata to three additional AWS Regions — Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). The service provides automated, near-real-time, queryable metadata for S3 objects, covering system-defined attributes (size, source, timestamps) and custom metadata via tags. Metadata is automatically populated for both new and existing objects, enabling faster discovery, curation, and use for analytics and real-time inference. With this release, S3 Metadata is generally available in six AWS Regions.

🛠️ Amazon Web Services announced that SageMaker AI Projects can now provision custom ML project templates stored in Amazon S3. Administrators can define and manage standardized end-to-end project templates in SageMaker AI Studio so data scientists can create projects that follow organizational patterns and automated workflows. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker AI Projects is offered.