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Amazon's Response to Botnet Incident
- ShabbyDoo 17y agoDoesn't Amazon have to protect the "cleanliness" of the IP addresses in its pool? I worked a bit in the past on email deliverability issues and recall that mail originating from IPs that have behaved badly in the past was much more likely to get tagged as spam. I'd hate to be the guy whose EC2 instance received one of these IPs. Who knows what sorts of filters would be left around out there.
- hga 17y agoI've read ... I think on an AWS forum ... that the EC2 addresses are already thoroughly tagged as spam. Using EC2 to send out spam is much more obvious than using it for botnet command and control. At the time they'd just rolled out a scheme to address this and many EC2 users were already using 3rd party email services.