Large scale outage visibility on the control plane

Conference paper (2021)

Authors

Leonard Becker Technical University of Berlin
Oliver Hohlfeld BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
G. Smaragdakis Cyber Security - EEMCS
Research Group
Cyber Security (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2021 Leonard Becker, Oliver Hohlfeld, G. Smaragdakis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3488658.3493788
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Published Date

2021

Language

English

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Intelligent Systems

Research Group

Cyber Security

Abstract

With the increasing cloud usage for access to fast and well-connected computational power, cloud outages have also become a growing risk for businesses and individuals alike. We derive a method to analyze publicly available BGP data to measure the visibility of cloud providers' outages on the Internet control plane. We then utilize this method to analyze an outage of Cloudflare, a large DNS and content provider. Cloudflare's outage study shows that visible traces can be found in BGP, enabling data-driven outage studies.