> this isn't something I'd expect from an Amazon owned property
Because you expect Amazon to put security priority over new features and profit? We have very different understandings of what Amazon stands for.
Because you expect Amazon to put security priority over new features and profit? We have very different understandings of what Amazon stands for.
I don't know what you think Amazon stands for, but Amazon runs the largest cloud hosting service in the world - AWS, which not only runs a large number of other large companies but governments as well. I know, first hand, that their datacenter security protocols are state of the art.
Amazon has a much larger surface attack area so if they were playing fast and loose with security, chances are we would know already.
I get your point and I am no taking about AWS but about Twitch. Each part of the company has its own incentives. Amazon is well know for not caring about quality nor its employees. In my experience with corporations there is little to no technical sharing between different parts of the company. AWS could have the best SecOps in the world and Twitch could have no security at all. Is your experience different?
Amazon is all about sharing efforts with the company. That's the whole point of AWS - its a monetization of this efforts. Most older AWS services started out as internal services that someone realized was generally useful.
As far as I can tell, there's no data to back up the assertion that these large tech companies are disregarding security if favor of profits, except for Twitch now, which is why this leak is interesting to me.