Keeping secrets: Tips for protecting your data in AWS S3

Amazon Web Services is the juggernaut in the cloud provider space, and with any piece of technology comes the need for proper security. In this regard, AWS is no exception. In this piece, we will shortly discuss the latest breaches of public S3 buckets, provide an overview of the two ways to protect data in these storage spaces, and discuss how the new Amazon Secrets Manager utility can assist in securing AWS cloud applications.  There have been a couple of recent instances in which company S3 buckets have been read by nefarious actors. Verizon and Accenture both presumably accidentally left their S3 storage areas readable to the public