The Cost of Retrying: Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks

Jhonatan Tavori; Anat Bremler-Barr; Hanoch Levy

doi:10.1145/3624354.3630091

The Cost of Retrying: Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks

Jhonatan Tavori, Anat Bremler-Barr, Hanoch Levy

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Abstract

Retry mechanisms are commonly used in microservices architectures as a mechanism for recovering from transit errors, including network failures and service overloading. This research aims at studying the operation of cloud retry mechanisms under deliberated DDoS attacks, and their effect on the application performance and operational costs. In this poster we focus on the economic aspect, and demonstrate that enabling such mechanisms improperly might be counter-productive and expose the system to substantial and quadratic economical damage in the presence of attacks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	67-68
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400704079
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3624354.3630091
State	Published - 5 Dec 2023
Event	19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Paris, France Duration: 5 Dec 2023 → 8 Dec 2023

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Name	CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

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Conference	19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT Companion 2023
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	5/12/23 → 8/12/23

Keywords

cloud attacks
microservices architecture
retry mechanisms

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Tavori, J., Bremler-Barr, A., & Levy, H. (2023). The Cost of Retrying: Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks. In CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (pp. 67-68). (CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3624354.3630091

Tavori, Jhonatan ; Bremler-Barr, Anat ; Levy, Hanoch. / The Cost of Retrying : Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks. CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2023. pp. 67-68 (CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies).

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Tavori, J, Bremler-Barr, A & Levy, H 2023, The Cost of Retrying: Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks. in CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 67-68, 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT Companion 2023, Paris, France, 5/12/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3624354.3630091

The Cost of Retrying: Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks. / Tavori, Jhonatan; Bremler-Barr, Anat ; Levy, Hanoch.
CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2023. p. 67-68 (CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies).

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Tavori J, Bremler-Barr A , Levy H. The Cost of Retrying: Exploiting Retry-Mechanisms in Cloud Applications by DDoS Attacks. In CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2023. p. 67-68. (CoNEXT Companion 2023 - Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies). doi: 10.1145/3624354.3630091

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