Internet ombudsman invited the Prosecutor General’s Office to check Roskomnadzor, millions of Amazon addresses are still blocked

Monitoring the availability of Amazon services in Russia

Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev proposed to the Prosecutor General’s Office to check the legality and validity of the actions of Roskomnadzor during mass blockings in April 2018. Such a proposal is contained in the annual report to Russian President Vladimir Putin "Book of complaints and suggestions of Russian business," presented by business ombudsman Boris Titov, TASS news agency reported .

In total, the report includes 284 systemic problems impeding the development of business in Russia, and about 600 proposals for solving them. A large team of specialists participated in the drafting of the report, including more than 30 public ombudsmen, each of whom is responsible for their own thematic area.
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The proposal to the Prosecutor General’s Office to check Roskomnadzor is very logical, because the regulator produces massive extrajudicial blocking of IP addresses precisely on the basis of the requirement of the Prosecutor General’s Office , which is aimed at quick (within a few hours) blocking resources calling for insurrection and riots ( screenshot ). Therefore, this solution allows you to quickly block any resources without a court. However, Telegram's proxy services and 80 blocked VPNs did not call for insurrection and unrest, not to mention Amazon, which suffered the most.

Roskomnadzor began mass blocking of IP addresses after the Tagansky Court of Moscow on April 13 satisfied the department's request to immediately block access to the Telegram messenger in Russia.

The Internet ombudsman expressed the opinion that the agency was guided by “its own interpretation of court decisions”. In addition, “when blocking information, Roskomnadzor does not make assessments of the“ collateral ”damage caused by it”.

Dmitry Marinichev clarified that with Telegram locks, according to expert estimates, more than 15 million addresses were blocked. In turn, this led to "the temporary unavailability of Internet resources of a number of Russian enterprises of the Internet sector, including several banks and state information resources."

As a “solution to the problem”, Marinichev proposes to the Prosecutor General’s Office “to verify the legitimacy and validity of Roskomnadzor’s actions on mass blocking of Internet addresses that led to a violation of the availability of information resources of commercial companies in April 2018 and endangering the integrity and sustainability of the single telecommunication network of the Russian Federation and critical information infrastructure ".

Currently, over 9 million Amazon IP addresses are blocked. According to various estimates, the Amazon cloud has only 13 to 20 million IP addresses. That is, Amazon’s services are largely unavailable for Russia; for details, see monitoring the availability of Amazon services in Russia .

According to statistics for May 20, 2018, completely blocked: 67 subnets, 13,468 separate IP addresses, in the amount of 10,918,776 IP addresses.

Statistics on blocked hosting:

• 91.2% is Amazon;
• 4.5% - DigitalOcean;
• 1.2% - Microsoft;
• 3.1% - the rest.

From interesting facts:

• records in unloading 110 281;
• 53574 blocked URLs (one entry can contain multiple URLs, this is exactly the number of URLs);
• blocked by domain 56,627;
• blocked domains with the pattern "*" - 2998 (but Rosokmnadzor does not know how to check them);
• unique domain names in unloading 81 055;
• records with domains 1077 67;
• unique IP in unloading on all types of blocking 86 659;
• 6819 blocked URLs or domains are hosted in Russia.

Unloading contains the following toxic data:

• 2266 overlapping records of the type of blocking (for example, there is a blocking by URL and by domain);
• 426 URLs with a # symbol (ie, a link within the document);
• 283 domains are free for registration (Roskomnadzor again stopped cleaning them);
• 7777 records contain domains that do not respond or do not have IP addresses (out of 107767);
• 1591 record contains domains that are clearly missing;
• in 14204 records with domains, IP addresses partially coincide with reality;
• in 23262 records with domains, IP addresses do not correspond to reality;
• 4 broken URLs

Information is provided from the telegram channel @ usher2 . The author of this channel discusses what could be the next scenario in the current situation of the actual blocking of Amazon services in Russia.

• the rapid development of the domestic cloud market, the creation of cloud ecosystems on a huge domestic market;
• transfer of services to the Russian national cloud systems;
• growth of national services - analogs of Trello, Slack;
• a massive departure of developers from foreign customers to domestic;
• the introduction of VPN costs by foreign customers into risks when working with Russian contractors.

How realistic each of these scenarios is - judge for yourself.