Tandem Attack: DDoS Attack on Microservices Auto-scaling Mechanisms

Abstract

Today's software development landscape has witnessed a shift towards microservices architectures [6]. Using this approach, large software systems are composed of multiple separate microservices, each responsible for specific tasks. The breakdown to microservices is also reflected in the infrastructure, where individual microservices can be executed with different hardware configurations and scaling properties [8]. As systems grow larger, incoming traffic can trigger multiple calls between different microservices to handle each request [9].