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It's gotta be my favorite AWS service for this reason alone. It's almost useless but that's a feature not a bug. They knew exactly their market.

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It pairs well with the checkbox in S3 that you can tick to enable encryption with no other changes to your application.

Hey, if someone breaks into an AWS data center and steals some s3 drives, you're totally in the clear.

You'd think that, but I had an auditor that had guidance requesting confirmation of security cameras on the servers. They wanted to drive to the AWS data center to see the cameras. If the drives got stolen, you'd better make sure AWS shares that video with you.

Ok, but what if someone bypasses the cameras on your servers with looped footage? Did the auditor think about having security cameras on the security cameras?

Amateurs.

Have they never seen Speed?

Awesome! I feel so much better about using this to pass an audit.

Same, I was checking usernames to see if I recognized any as former co-workers where we had to do this.

I guess there's just a decent market for the product everyone trying to check that box, though.

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