The personal information of 123 million households in the US may have been compromised after an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage “bucket” was left exposed, according to a report.
According to multiple tech companies, Walmart is telling vendors that they are not allowed to run any applications for the retail giant using Amazon Web Services, and should instead use alternate solutions, such as Microsoft’s Azure.
Amazon claims that the shutdown on Tuesday of over one million websites who use the company’s web-hosting service was due to an employee “typo.”
A number of websites became unavailable Tuesday after Amazon’s website hosting service went down unexpectedly.
Amazon set a quarterly earnings record of $1 a share on $35.7 billion in sales last quarter, but traders sent the stock plunging over 7% Friday after the e-commerce company missed Wall Street’s earnings estimates by 36 percent.
