The recent Capital One data breach allegedly perpetrated by a single American hacker from the Pacific Northwest named Paige A. Thompson, was just the most recent in a long successive line of penetrations that have exposed vulnerabilities within perhaps the largest systems business in the world, Amazon Web Services.  It has been widely speculated that the fact that Thompson was a former employee of Amazon led her to possess insider information that facilitated her ability to pull off such a massive crime. AWS, through its spokesman Grant Milne, claims that the “vulnerability is not specific to the cloud,” and that their systems were not compromised as part of the hack.  Amazon Web Services, with its different features and services that it delivers to millions of customers on its public cloud, now boasts an annualized run rate of over $30 billion. Hundreds of millions of internet users interact with AWS in one capacity or another on a daily...(Read Full Post)