Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday July 2, 2008 @07:14AM from the you-kids-get-off-my-cloud dept.

jamie pointed out a story about the recent problems Amazon's EC2 service has been having with malware and spam. "EC2 space is now actively blocked by Outblaze, and has been listed by Spamhaus in their PBL list [...] However as Seth Breidbart noted in the comments, 'note that Amazon will terminate the instance. That means that the spammer just creates another instance, which gets a new IP address, and continues spamming.' True enough -- as described, instance termination simply isn't good enough."

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Re:Terminate accounts not instances? by gnuman99 · 2008-07-02 08:59 · Score: 1, Offtopic

You cannot "fine" anyone for anything. Amazon does not create the law which can punish users.
What Amazon can do is have a "service reactivation fee" that is required to be paid to reinstate suspended accounts.