{"id":44348,"date":"2021-12-09T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32899\/AWS-Is-The-Internets-Biggest-Single-Point-Of-Failure.html"},"modified":"2021-12-09T14:07:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:07:02","slug":"aws-is-the-internets-biggest-single-point-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/aws-is-the-internets-biggest-single-point-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Is The Internet&#8217;s Biggest Single Point Of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"32\">\n<div><picture class=\"responsive-image lazyloader--lazy lazyloader--lowres\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/61b0e562a2346a009b79b4d8\/lede\/1638983398632-amazon-aws.jpeg?crop=1xw:0.8442xh;0xw,0.0882xh&amp;resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/61b0e562a2346a009b79b4d8\/lede\/1638983398632-amazon-aws.jpeg?crop=1xw:0.8442xh;0xw,0.0882xh&amp;resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/61b0e562a2346a009b79b4d8\/lede\/1638983398632-amazon-aws.jpeg?crop=1xw:0.8442xh;0xw,0.0882xh&amp;resize=20:*\"><img class=\"responsive-image__img\" alt=\"amazon-aws\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>Image:&nbsp;Noah Berger\/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"BodyComponentRenderer\" readability=\"82.458545213354\">\n<div class=\"topic-callout\" readability=\"7.2888888888889\">\n<div class=\"topic-callout__img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/topic\/cyber\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/topics\/57a205628cb727dec795a6b1\/callout_logo\/1614199980283-screen-shot-2021-02-24-at-34918-pm.png?resize=240:*\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-02-24 at 3\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard&#8217;s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"28.090614886731\"><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, several services on the internet ground to a halt because of an outage at some Amazon Web Services cloud servers. The outage affected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/7\/22822332\/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Netflix, Disney Plus, <\/span><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/7\/22822332\/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>PUBG<\/span><\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/7\/22822332\/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>, <\/span><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/7\/22822332\/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>League Of Legends<\/span><\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/7\/22822332\/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>, Ring security cameras<\/span><\/a>, as well as Amazon products and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/qjbkbm\/aws-outage-throws-amazon-into-chaos\"><span>delivery infrastructure<\/span><\/a>. People were not able to see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldwise001\/status\/1468314462704869387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>pictures of their favorite McDonald\u2019s coffee<\/span><\/a>, nor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GossiTheDog\/status\/1468284309756911621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>use their Roomba vacuum cleaners<\/span><\/a>. On Reddit, users reported they were not able to charge their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/electricvehicles\/comments\/rb9i0c\/psa_electrify_america_currently_experiencing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>electric vehicles<\/span><\/a>. Even here at Motherboard, we were briefly unable to post new stories, or share them on social media because the outage impacted some of the tools we use.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<div class=\"adph adph--border\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"29\"><\/p>\n<p>The outage lasted just a few hours, but it showed the world just how much the internet depends on Amazon\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>Steven Bellovin, a computer science professor at Columbia University, said that one of the issues with the internet\u2019s dependency on AWS is that there is now a single point of failure for thousands of websites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"35\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf an attacker can gain control of AWS infrastructure, they could do very great damage. It&#8217;s likely that that&#8217;s much harder than penetrating individual companies, because AWS is very, very good at running a secure shop, but of course it&#8217;s not impossible,\u201d Bellovin told Motherboard in an email. <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"35\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is yet another glimpse of how interconnected our services have become, with the immense complexity of cloud deployments impacting large numbers of enterprises and consumers,\u201d Ed Skoudis, the president of the SANS Technology Institute, which focuses on cybersecurity, told Motherboard in an email.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"32\"><\/p>\n<p>Rob Graham, a cybersecurity expert who\u2019s known for creating tools to scan the whole internet, said that when you depend on a cloud provider like AWS you may set up your website or service to keep running even when the provider is down, which may impact some security services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"18.989010989011\"><\/p>\n<p>Graham mentioned the example of Parler. Earlier this year, AWS and Twilion pulled the plug on the right-wing social media site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/parler-hack-data-public-posts-images-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>which caused the site\u2019s SMS verification system to fail, allowing hackers to bypass two-factor authentication<\/span><\/a> and get into users\u2019 accounts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-component=\"QuoteBlock\" class=\"abc__quote abc__quote--pullquote\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>\u201cThere are real but imponderable risks to one company controlling so much of the net.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"37\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like how people were surprised about their dependencies on AWS when it went down, people would be surprised about how much their security was dependent on AWS. However, they are less likely to notice that their security now has a hole. I mean, if it&#8217;s an unexpected dependency on availability, people notice immediately. If it&#8217;s an unexpected vulnerability on security, they won&#8217;t notice\u2014unless the hackers notice it :),\u201d Graham said in an online chat. \u201cYou aren&#8217;t going to have a big breakdown in obvious security thingies, but a subtle vulnerability in unexpected ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Amazon said that it was \u201cseeing impact to multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<div class=\"adph adph--border\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"20.414473684211\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe root cause of this issue is an impairment of several network devices in the US-EAST-1 Region,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/status.aws.amazon.com\/?ascsubtag=[]vg[p]22586373[t]w[r]google.com[d]D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>the company added on its official status page<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"34\"><\/p>\n<p>The other risk, Bellovin added, is that AWS is a monoculture, and if a hacker figures out a way to phish AWS customers, they can use that technique with every one of them. Still, AWS is a great choice for most companies.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"32\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor small and medium companies, I generally recommend cloud services, because they don&#8217;t have the people or the skills to run their own systems as securely,\u201d Bellovin said. \u201cBut there are real but imponderable risks to one company controlling so much of the net.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"29\"><\/p>\n<p>AWS is a single point of failure, but the fact that it doesn\u2019t fail too often has lulled many into a sense of security where they should prepare better.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"36\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSingle points of failure are all over, and those affected could have engineered with failover if it really is critical for them to keep working,\u201d Nicholas Weaver, a senior researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley, told Motherboard in an online chat. \u201cIf anything AWS is too reliable, it&#8217;s reliable enough that people don\u2019t bother doing the engineering for when it fails, so when it does fail it is a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"18.89156626506\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/cyber\/id1441708044?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>CYBER<\/span><\/a>. Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/motherboardtv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>our new Twitch channel<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32899\/AWS-Is-The-Internets-Biggest-Single-Point-Of-Failure.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[9773],"class_list":["post-44348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packet-storm","tag-headlineamazondenial-of-service"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AWS Is The Internet&#039;s 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