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Aren't AWS Cloud Investigations the same as On-Prem? - Part 2 (AWS S3)

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Introduction  As always, if this is your first time visiting my page, welcome! If you're coming back for more, I do have vouchers to a good clinic I could recommend (just kidding). I'm excited to continue the next post in the mini-series detailing the overlap, but more importantly the differences, in AWS Cloud investigations versus on-premises. In this blog post, we will be diving into AWS S3 this time, which is a beast, so let's skip the rest of the intro. What is S3? Airlifted directly from the AWS docs, "Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance." AWS S3 is arguably (or not) one of the most popular AWS services ever released and is commonly used to host static website content. It is also used, as the documentation refers to it, object storage. With this in mind, the counterpart technology here would be a NAS (Network Attached S...