Spamhaus Blocks Amazon's EC2 Cloud Service
October 15, 2009
Spamhaus, one of the world's largest spam-fighting organizations, has blocked Amazon's entire US-based EC2 cloud computing platform over the actions of what the organization believes to be the acts of a single spammer. The blacklisting has resulted in significant disruption to dozens, if not hundreds, of legitimate businesses that rely on the cloud platform in order to conduct business.