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Is Your Website Hosted In An S3 Bucket Misconfigured?
A common mistake you’ll want to avoid that was in the code I got back from Amazon Q
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In the last few posts I wrote some code to deploy a public static website in an S3 bucket. The configuration includes CloudFront and a TLS Certificate.
The related posts for how I developed the website are all listed in this blog post on AI research and programming with AI:
In this post I’m going to explain a common security misconfiguration that people make when implementing websites in S3 buckets. I used to have a lab covering this topic when I taught cloud security classes that basically showed people how to implement the code I wrote in that series to prevent this misconfiguration.