Amazon's servers used to provide outsourced cloud computing that would have been used in attacks against Sony and its PSN early this month, tells the Bloomberg news network.
Amazon Web Services LogoDe according to an anonymous source, the bandits used false information to rent Amazon EC2 servers and use them to attack the network game of the Japanese company, which mostly fallen and is still no date for return to the air. By the time the investigation into the case is going on "secret", but Sony says that the attacks it suffered were "very professional, carefully planned and highly sophisticated. "
The account used to trigger the attacks have already been suspended by eBay, which had no immediate comment. Sony now says it will "continue working with the authorities about the situation" but declined to touch it.
Used by companies like Netflix, Amazon EC2 servers generated U.S. $ 500 million ($ 816) to its parent in 2010, or only 1.5% of the total gains from sales on the web giant, which earned U.S. $ 34 , 2 billion (U.S. $ 54 billion) last year.
