Comment by rlvesco7 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by rlvesco7 | Hacker News Reader

I've been running a similar experiment. And noticed similar things as the author.

However, I decided to run an additional experiment to contact Amazon since the IP was originating from an EC2 instance. Amazon contacted me after I filed an abuse report and said they were investigating.

A week goes by and I'm still getting hammered. So I email Amazon and asked when it will be resolved. No response. So I email again, again, and again. I finally get a response saying they have resolved it, but I'm still getting hammered from the same IP address.

So I email them once more asking - what is it exactly you have resolved?

No response.

I presume it is not in Amazon's best interest to resolve such issues as long as people are paying for their instances....

It upsets me to hear this. I always wondered how Amazon handled abuse on EC2 as it's an insanely large service. At some point it has to become an issue? Does anyone have any experience with other types of abuse on EC2?

this has been a problem with AWS/EC2 for the last four/five years (since its creation): http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/105399

while that might be true, what's happening I'm quite sure can be proven to be malicious in court.

I don't like the idea that companies can turn a blind eye to illegal activity just cause they're getting a cut of the resulting profits.

One of my linode servers was compromised and was used to originate such attacks. Linode proactively shut down the machine after a 24 hr notice period.

Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting this, so I missed their email and only realized the problem once my linode was offline.

I wouldn't be thrilled about either linode OR amazon

The Internet at large, on the other hand, would be quite happy with Linode in this particular instance.

Was there some other way they should have contacted you?

That is always the most difficult part for me when trying to get these issues resolved - the legal side is complicated and I don't have the bankroll to get lawyers..

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