The Morning Download: Amazon Cloud Not Quite So 'Simple' - Wall Street Journal (blog)

The Morning Download: Amazon Cloud Not Quite So 'Simple' - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Good morning. Using cloud services isn’t as easy as some would like us to believe. A survey of Amazon.com’s widely used storage service, Simple Storage Service (or S3), shows 16% of surveyed online directories had files set to open, meaning anyone knowing where to look could read their contents. An Amazon spokesperson suggested those customers may have wanted to allow their files â€" which included sales records from a large car dealership and an ad company’s click-through data â€" to be viewed by anyone. But there’s a big difference between sharing your playlist on Spotify and sharing proprietary data with the rest of the world. Hugh Scott, CIO of the consumer energy distribution company Energy Plus (not one of the customers affected), tells CIO Journal he could “definitely not” imagine a reason why he’d want data stored in his S3 directory made available to the public.

Source Article from http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/04/01/the-morning-download-amazon-cloud-not-quite-so-simple/