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The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the resistance-is-futile dept.

Julie188 writes "Google is made up of 500,000 systems, 1 million CPUs and 1,500 gigabits per second (Gbps) of bandwidth, according to cloud service provider Neustar. Amazon comes in second with 160,000 systems, 320,000 CPUs and 400 Gbps of bandwidth, while Rackspace offers 65,000 systems, 130,000 CPUs and 300 Gbps. But these clouds are dwarfed by the likes of the really big cloud services, otherwise known as botnets. Conficker controls 6.4 million computer systems in 230 countries, with more than 18 million CPUs and 28 terabits per second of bandwidth."

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  1. Re:where did they get their numbers from? by danny_lehman · · Score: 5, Informative

    here you go. you made me curious. http://www.filibustercartoons.com/allcountries.htm

  2. Re:where did they get their numbers from? by JoshuaJ · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ha! I think I found where they got at least some of these numbers: confickerworkinggroup.org. To quote the source: "it is with a lot of trepidation that we even show any values for conficker knowing that they will most likely be taken out of context and quoted by many." Oh well. They show conficker traffic hitting their honeypots from about 6.2 million unique IPs in 225 geographic areas (presumably based on ccTLDs, which use a liberal definition of "country") -- interestingly close to the stats quoted.