Amazon probably can't change S3 for backwards compatibility reasons (there was an outcry about just changing some legacy URLs last year), but they definitely can and should make an "S4" which would be an S3 compatible storage layer with sane defaults.

Essentially, people only ever want one of two things:

- A private FTP bucket

- A public static asset website (with built-in CDN and HTTPS!)

Thing people never want:

- A public upload bucket

Seriously, no one wants that in any circumstance, ever. It's a huge liability. I literally cannot imagine anyone wanting anything even similar to it. But many, many companies have accidentally made one with S3.

While they're at it, S4 should also actually use IAM and all that other "modern" stuff that S3 doesn't have because it's so ancient.