US 10,097,581 B1Granted

Honeypot computing services that include simulated computing resources

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorNicholas Alexander Allen

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Abstract

The disclosure relates to provisioning honeypot computing services using a simulation state database to simulate a set of computing resources. One example includes a system that receives a mutating request associated with honeypot credentials, updates a simulation state database associated with the honeypot credentials at least based on the mutating request and generates a simulated mutating response based at least on the simulation state database that simulates a response to the mutating request. The system can also receive a query request associated with the honeypot credentials, query the simulation state database at least based on the query request, and generate a simulated query response based at least on the simulation state database that simulates a response to the query request.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for providing honeypot computing services, comprising:

provisioning honeypotting credentials;
receiving, from a user device, a mutating request associated with the provisioned honeypotting credentials, the mutating request being a request to change at least a computing resource in a set of computing resources;
updating a simulation state database based at least in part on the mutating request to indicate, in the simulation state database, that the computing resource was changed in accordance with fulfillment of the mutating request;
generating a mutating response at least based on the simulation state database that indicates that the mutating request was fulfilled;
providing the mutating response to the user device;
receiving, from the user device, a query request associated with the provisioned honeypotting credentials, the query request being a request to obtain information about at least the computing resource;
querying the simulation state database at least based on the query request;
generating a query response at least based on the simulation state database;
and
providing the query response to the user device.

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