It seems unlikely that Amazon would not detect attempts to reach unauthorized IP addresses. If you’ve used AWS security groups, you know that you can specify wh

It seems unlikely that Amazon would not detect attempts to reach unauthorized IP addresses. If you’ve used AWS security groups, you know that you can specify what IP ranges your machines can access. While many customers aren’t locking this access down, I’m fairly certain Amazon knows exactly what they are doing on the AWS systems they use. Detecting such attempts on a brand new system would spur them to identify the source. They’d have found that chip, most likely.