MOBAARS Worldwide Cloud Processing

Jim Blanchard, ScD
Nov 17, 2017
1 min read

Thanks to Amazon for addressing the need for cloud security of data and remote processing.

AWS S3 is our current cloud processing location for MOBAARS. Getting familiar with it takes time, but for the busy executive, here are five new encryption and security features of S3:

from Amazon on 6 NOV 2017

Default Encryption – You can now mandate that all objects in a bucket must be stored in encrypted form without having to construct a bucket policy that rejects objects that are not encrypted.
Permission Checks – The S3 Console now displays a prominent indicator next to each S3 bucket that is publicly accessible.
Cross-Region Replication ACL Overwrite – When you replicate objects across AWS accounts, you can now specify that the object gets a new ACL that gives full access to the destination account.
Cross-Region Replication with KMS – You can now replicate objects that are encrypted with keys that are managed by AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
Detailed Inventory Report – The S3 Inventory report now includes the encryption status of each object. The report itself can also be encrypted.