Amazon bills after DDoS
Archived post from 2012, recovered from my old blog. The technology described here is probably out of date. Original at the Internet Archive.
http://buffalo.fbi.gov/images/c3.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons” src=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Stack\_of\_money.jpg” alt=“Stack of money” width=“208” height=“144” />Amazon Web Services bring my attention more and more often recently. They provide a full infrastructure for cloud applications of any kind. However from the very beginning I was concerned about financial consequences of unexpected incidents like distributed denial-of-service attack. It can lead to a huge resource usage in a very short period of time and at the end generate an astronomic bills.
As far as I know there is no solution so far to protect against it. And of course I am not the only one noticing the problem: