No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Official Amazon S3 endpoint used for cloud storage, 20.9 years old with clean scans and no malicious indicators.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
This screenshot shows the legitimate Amazon Web Services website and presents no indicators of a scam or phishing attempt.
What our vision model saw
2 signalsThe page displays the official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon S3.
The layout, branding, and navigation elements are consistent with the legitimate AWS platform.
Intelligence
The domain s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com belongs to Amazon Web Services and has been registered since 2005. Our antivirus network returned zero malicious flags and only one suspicious result from URLQuery. The hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and the SSL certificate is valid from Amazon. The page content matches the official AWS S3 documentation with consistent branding and navigation. While attackers sometimes abuse S3 buckets to host phishing pages, the domain itself is legitimate infrastructure. The visual analysis confirms the screenshot shows the real AWS site with no scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is a legitimate Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure domain used for cloud object storage.
- The domain is not inherently malicious, but its trusted reputation is frequently exploited by attackers to host phishing pages, malware, and credential-harvesting kits.
- Attackers use S3 buckets to bypass email security gateways and URL scanners that trust the amazonaws.com domain.
- Phishing campaigns often use randomly generated or deceptive bucket names (e.g., 'access-authority-...') to impersonate brands like Microsoft, Coinbase, or DocuSign.
- Security researchers advise that blocking the entire amazonaws.com domain is not feasible; instead, organizations should rely on URL reputation and bucket-level denylisting.
- Users are advised to verify URLs carefully, as attackers often use legitimate AWS infrastructure to host deceptive content.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Gridinsoft blocks this website because it was classified as phishing. core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com shows phishing risks and a 6/100 trust score."
- Cofenseopen
"Threat actors abuse AWS services such as S3 buckets... to host and distribute malicious content, capitalizing on the platform's trusted infrastructure to deploy deceptive domains."
- The Birdlingopen
"Amazon S3 landing pages (observed across emails): https://access-authority-8167f7a.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/index.html... This is a classic credential-collection campaign."
- Security Affairsopen
"The phishing message contains a link that leads to an AWS-hosted page (hxxps://access-authority-2fa7abff0e[.]s3.us-east-1[.]amazonaws[.]com/index.html)"
The domain is a legitimate infrastructure component owned and operated by Amazon.com, Inc.
Gridinsoft, Cofense, The Birdling, and Security Affairs each describe how threat actors abuse AWS S3 buckets to host phishing pages and credential-harvesting kits. The reports emphasize that attackers use randomly generated bucket names to bypass filters that trust the amazonaws.com domain. No scam reports or complaints target the core s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com endpoint itself.
Domain Timeline
- Aug 17, 2005Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 21 years old today.
- Jul 14, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
- Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.
- Phone number listed (99.999999999).
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1307http://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
- 2200https://aws.amazon.com/s3/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and not a lookalike like s-3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the official Amazon S3 storage endpoint. The domain is 20.9 years old, carries clean reputation scores, and hosts legitimate AWS documentation.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, so it appears legitimate. and the domain is 20.9 years old, registered on August 17, 2005 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- Yes. 1 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com as suspicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is 20.9 years old, registered on August 17, 2005 through MarkMonitor Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, valid for another 115 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 14, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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