Creating an IRL [In Real Life] DoS [Denial of Service] attack with Amazon Giveaways & AWS

Bio

John Mikulskis is a sophomore at Boston University pursuing a Bachelors in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. His current research focus is Software Defined Radios and cybersecurity advancements involving different wireless protocols relevant to IoT.

Abstract

Amazon Giveaways may be one of the lesser known services provided by the tech giant, but it still receives a reasonable amount of attention from vendors and shoppers alike, with thousands of prizes available at any given day. The lack of robust security against bots on Amazon's site makes this service easily exploitable. With the help of Amazon Web Services such as S3, SES, EC2, and Lambda, the Amazon Giveaways service can be transformed into an in real life package DoS.