[ryantownsend]

I believe this kind of attack is already referred to as EDoS (Economic Denial of Service/Sustainability) - basically killing of a service through bankruptcy.

This is why most cloud services have a customisable limit on how many virtual servers can be booted automatically, a solution is yet to be found for protecting S3.

[gizzlon]

Thanks..

"[snip]..one might envision that instead of worrying about a lack of resources, the elasticity of the cloud could actually provide a surplus of compute, network and storage utility that could be just as bad as a deficit"

http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/a-couple-of...