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Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by andrewstuart on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:57PM (#35835599)
You'd think my > 10 year old AWS account with usage history would be enough, but apparently not.
Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by ecnahc515 on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:02PM (#35835636)
Devil's advocate: 10 year old accounts are probably just as likely as any to get hacked into and used for crypto mining, and honestly I bet a majority of their customers don't even use GPU instances.
Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by angus-prune on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:13PM (#35835750)
One could argue that older accounts are even more likely to get hacked, as they are more likely to have older passwords that are weaker that may have been leaked along the way, along with various other accumulated security issues (leaked API keys, out of date 2FA choices etc).
Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by ericpauley on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:10PM (#35835718)
Yep, Amazon's threat model has less to do with how reputable a given account is, since credential theft is rampant. Even at massive institutional customers on POs I've had to apply for quotas.