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What security mechanisms do cloud providers use to detect and prevent cryptomining and similar resource abuse? [closed]
In cloud environments, certain security threats exploit computational resources for unauthorized purposes, such as cryptomining or compute-driven bot attacks. These attacks lead to significant resource over-utilization, impacting both cost and service availability, which are critical components of cloud security.
Specifically, I’m looking to understand:
- What detection mechanisms and security protocols do cloud providers implement to identify unauthorized resource abuse, such as cryptomining?
- How do providers distinguish between legitimate resource use and potentially malicious over-utilization?
- Are there specific security tools or industry standards focused on safeguarding availability against compute-heavy abuse?
By focusing on security responses to malicious resource over-utilization, I aim to gain insight into provider-specific and industry-standard protections that can help secure cloud infrastructure against these targeted attacks.
