The Critical Gap: Why Your Financial Services Apps Need Amazon S3 Protection

The "Good Enough" Trap That Leaves Apps Vulnerable

Most engineering teams think they're covered. After all, AWS handles infrastructure security, right? And you've got replication across availability zones, multiple versions, or system snapshots. You're good.

Wrong.

AWS secures the infrastructure. You're responsible for protecting the data your applications depend on. And those availability zones, versions, and snapshots? They protect against operational failures, not cyber attacks.

The hard truth: Most teams assume AWS is protecting their application data in S3, only to discover that AWS secures the infrastructure while you're responsible for protecting the data.

The reality is stark: Application recovery investigations take days of manual work coordinating across multiple teams when S3 data gets compromised. It's not just about restoring files. Teams need to figure out which applications are affected, what data they need, and how to restore business functionality. The result: critical customer-facing applications can be down for days.

This confusion about the shared responsibility model is leaving critical financial services applications completely exposed.