The Internet ombudsman invited the Prosecutor General 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 to verify the legality and validity of Roskomnadzor’s actions during mass blocking in April 2018. Such a proposal is contained in the annual report to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, “The Book of Complaints and Suggestions of the Russian Business,” presented by business ombudsman Boris Titov,TASS reported .

    In total, the report included 284 systemic problems that impede business development in Russia, and about 600 proposals for resolving them. A large team of specialists participated in the preparation of the report, including more than 30 public ombudsmen, each of which is responsible for its own thematic area.

    The proposal of the Prosecutor General’s Office to check Roskomnadzor is very logical, because the regulator makes massive out-of-court IP blocking precisely on the basis of the requirement of the Prosecutor General’s Office , which is aimed at quickly (within a few hours) blocking resources that call for riots and riots ( screenshot ). Therefore, this decision allows you to quickly block any resources without trial. However, Telegram's proxy services and 80 blocked VPNs did not call for riots and riots, not to mention Amazon, which suffered the most.

    Roskomnadzor began mass blocking of IP addresses after the Tagansky Court of Moscow on April 13 upheld the department’s demand 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 evaluate the“ collateral ”damage caused to it.”

    Dmitry Marinichev said that when Telegram was blocked, according to expert estimates, more than 15 million addresses were blocked. In turn, this led to "temporary inaccessibility of Internet resources of a number of Russian enterprises in 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 check the legality and validity of Roskomnadzor’s actions for mass blocking of Internet addresses that led to a violation of the availability of information resources of commercial companies in April 2018 and threatening the integrity and stability of the functioning of the unified telecommunication network of the Russian Federation and critical information infrastructure ".

    Currently, more than 9 million Amazon IPs remain blocked. According to various estimates, the Amazon cloud has only 13 to 20 million IP addresses. That is, for Russia Amazon services are largely absent, for more details see monitoring the availability of Amazon services in Russia .

    According to statisticsfor May 20, 2018, it is completely blocked: 67 subnets, 13,468 individual IP addresses, in the amount of 10,918,776 IP addresses.

    Blocked hosting statistics:

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

    From interesting facts:

    • records in the unloading 110 281;
    • blocked URLs 53,274 (one entry can contain multiple URLs, this is exactly the number of URLs);
    • blocked by domain 56 627;
    • blocked domains with the template "*" - 2998 (but Rosokmnadzor does not know how to check them);
    • unique domain names in the unloading of 81,055;
    • records with domains 1077 67;
    • unique IPs in unloading for all types of blocking 86 659;
    • 6819 blocked URLs or domains hosted in Russia.

    The unloading contains the following toxic data:

    • 2266 overlapping by type of write lock (for example, there is a block by URL and by domain);
    • 426 URL with the symbol # (i.e. link inside 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);
    • The 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 given from the telegram channel @ usher2 . The author of this channel discusses what further scenarios may be in the current situation of the actual blocking of Amazon services in Russia.

    • rapid development of the domestic cloud market, the creation of cloud ecosystems in a huge domestic market;
    • transfer of services to Russian national cloud systems;
    • the growth of national services - analogues Trello, Slack;
    • mass departure of developers from foreign customers to domestic;
    • introducing VPN costs by foreign customers into risks when working with Russian providers.

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

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