Versioning in Cloud Environments: How it Can Cause Shadow Data & How to Mitigate the Risk

Originally published by Laminar. Versioning in AWS S3 buckets, Azure Blob Containers and Google Cloud buckets is an extremely useful data management tool, and is even considered “best practice” when storing and managing data in the cloud. When enabled, this feature keeps multiple versions of an object in the same bucket[1], and can be used to preserve, retrieve and restore different object versions in case of unintended modification or deletion.However, this seemingly important and useful fea...

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