AWS S3 Bucketsquatting Is Dead: Account Regional Namespaces Are Here
I have deleted an S3 bucket exactly once and regretted it immediately. Back in 2022, I tore down a staging environment, and within a few hours someone else had claimed the same bucket name. A CloudFormation stack in another account kept happily writing logs to a bucket I no longer controlled. Not my favorite Friday. AWS has finally shipped a real fix: account regional namespaces for S3 general purpose buckets. It took about seven years, which feels both absurd and very on-brand. ...