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Cloud Security's About the Details

How would an Amazon Web Services attacker manage to get their instance loaded on the same physical machine, given that an EC2 customer ostensibly has no control over where in the cloud they are located (beyond some control over the geographical region where they are loaded)? It would seem pretty difficult, but this provides for a perfect example of the sort of ingenuity that cloud attackers can dream up. A team of researchers at MIT and UCSD wrote a paper on research in which they used what they called “cloud cartography” to learn about the mapping of new instances spawned within EC2 to physical IP addresses within Amazon address spaces. More...


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