AWS Load Balancer Sends 2 Million Netflix API Reqs To Wrong Customer 58
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from the close-does-not-in-fact-count dept.
from the close-does-not-in-fact-count dept.
rsk writes "Amazon Web Services' Elastic Load Balancer is a dynamic load-balancer managed by Amazon. Load balancers regularly swapped around with each other which can lead to surprising results; like getting millions of requests meant for a different AWS customer. Using ELBs can result in AWS unintentionally introducing a man-in-the-middle (attack) into your application environment. Most AWS users do not realize this can happen and have not secured against it."
Re:Charge both ways! (Score:2, Informative)
Actually, they didn't write the load balancer. They just bought F5s and integrated them with their infrastructure to change their configurations programmatically.