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.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 https:// 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.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.This censorship circumvention technique is actively used in the wild and loosing Amazon is no good.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom