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EDoS is the new DDoS ?

ID: eaa4bb7d-75b6-505b-9cab-66c525a70825

STIX ID: report--eaa4bb7d-75b6-505b-9cab-66c525a70825

Feed Name: SensePost Blog

Date Published: 2009-01-27

Date Updated: 2026-04-29

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The post discusses the concept of “EDoS” (Economic Denial of Sustainability) in cloud computing, highlighting how pay-as-you-go models (e.g., AWS EC2/S3) can be abused to drive up operational costs through seemingly legitimate traffic, making it hard for defenders to differentiate valid from malicious requests and limiting the effectiveness of black-holing; it reflects on community reactions and suggests further exploration of the technique rather than presenting a specific incident.

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