How Secure is Amazon Cloud?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has built its network to protect against most usual network security problems, and users are allowed and encouraged to provide their own protective measures. A few examples are provided Amazon’s Security Whitepaper:
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
To protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the AWS API endpoints are on the same infrastructure as Amazon’s world-famous retail site. Syn cookies and connection limits are used for protection, as with most networks. Amazon also maintains internal bandwidth even greater than its provider-supplied bandwidth on the Internet, making DDoS attacks even less damaging.
Man In the Middle (MITM) Attacks
MITM attack is the type of attack where attackers intrude into an existing connection to intercept the exchanged data and inject false information. It involves eavesdropping on a connection, intruding into a connection, intercepting messages, and selectively modifying data. In this way, an attacker can fool a victim into disclosing confidential information by “spoofing”