Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
One important implication is that collateral freedom techniques [1] using Amazon S3 will no longer work.<p>To put it simply, right now I could put some stuff not liked by Russian or Chinese government (maybe entire website) and give a direct s3 link to <a href="https://" rel="nofollow">https://</a> s3 .amazonaws.com/mywebsite/index.html. Because it's https — there is no way man in the middle knows what people read on s3.amazonaws.com. With this change — dictators see my domain name and block requests to it right away.<p>I don't know if they did it on purpose or just forgot about those who are less fortunate in regards to access to information, but this is a sad development.<p>This censorship circumvention technique is actively used in the wild and loosing Amazon is no good.<p>1 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom</a>