Mirrors in the Sky: On the Potential of Clouds in DNS Reflection-based Denial-of-Service Attacks
Ramin Yazdani, Alden Hilton, Jeroen van der Ham, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Casey T. Deccio, Anna Sperotto, Mattijs Jonker · 2022
Clouds are likely to be well-provisioned in terms of network capacity by design. The rapid growth of cloud-based services means an increased availability of network infrastructure for all types of customers. However, it could also provide attackers opportunity to misuse cloud infrastructure to bring about attacks, or to target the cloud infrastructure itself.