AWS claims 90% vector cost savings with S3 Vectors GA, calls it 'complementary' - analysts split on what it means for vector databases

Despite the aggressive cost claims and dramatic scale improvements, AWS is positioning S3 Vectors as a complementary storage ...
Computer Weekly

AWS recalibrates data economics further with S3 Vectors, batch & Intelligent-Tiering

The company is saying that Amazon S3 Vectors makes S3 a “more cost-effective and scalable” solution for AI and machine ...
SiliconANGLE

AWS expands Amazon S3 with features to support Apache Iceberg and metadata management

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced at its re:Invent conference today significant updates to its Amazon Simple Storage Service that are designed to make S3 the first cloud object store with fully ...
Dark Reading

Critical AWS Vulnerabilities Allow S3 Attack Bonanza

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 8 – Six critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services (AWS) could have allowed threat actors to target organizations with remote code execution (RCE), ...
Bleeping Computer

Ransomware abuses Amazon AWS feature to encrypt S3 buckets

A new ransomware campaign encrypts Amazon S3 buckets using AWS's Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) known only to the threat actor, demanding ransoms to receive the decryption ...
TechRadar

AWS S3 feature abused by ransomware hackers to encrypt storage buckets

Attackers access storage buckets with exposed AWS keys The files are then encrypted and scheduled for deletion after a week Halycon says it observed at least two victims being attacked this way ...