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AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem?

theregister·Corey Quinn, special to El Reg·19 days ago
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Most users put up with AWS the way you put up with the DMV. I say this with love, but it's hard to disagree that the UI is awful. The console is a UX time capsule if time capsules weren't allowed to ever look like other time capsules. The pricing pages were designed by someone who hates you personally, and you accept all of it because the one thing AWS has historically gotten right is the boring, important stuff. The security model. The IAM language no one likes, but everyone trusts. The boundary between your account and someone else's. Get that wrong, and the whole bargain collapses.  So when Fog Security disclosed an authorization bypass in Amazon Quick on May 12 (that's the BI service formerly known as QuickSight, briefly known as Quick Suite, and now apparently just Quick, but check back next week) and AWS responded with a statement claiming "no customer data was at risk," it's fair to ask which definition of customer data they're using.…

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