DDOS Mitigation Analysis of AWS Cloud Network

Abstract

Cloud computing is growing technology [10] which is adopted and used by many companies but it is facing a huge number of threats and Distributed Denial of Ser- vice(DDOS) tops the list. It can seriously a ect the companies depending on cloud services for their business.This project is an analysis of DDOS mitigation on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is currently one of the leading cloud service provider that powers thousands of businesses in more than 190 countries. The capabilities of AWS infrastructure for DDOS attacks resiliency and its prevention will be analyzed in this report. Some common DDOS attacks for which the scripts are easily available to everyone on internet has been carried out in the project against instances hosted on AWS to analyze its capability of dealing such attacks. This project report outlines the best practices for DDoS Mitigation with practical implementation to prevent common DDOS attacks and its mitigation.