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Home > Cloud Computing > AWS blocked over 130,000 IP addresses during the 2021 Australian Census

AWS blocked over 130,000 IP addresses during the 2021 Australian Census

The Australian Bureau of Statistics held the Census of Population and Housing that engaged PwC Australia to create a robust Census Digital Service, hosted on Amazon Web Services.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
September 27, 2021
2 min read
AWS blocked over 13,000 IP addresses during the 2021 Australian Census

On 10 August 2021, The Australian Bureau of Statistics held the Census of Population and Housing, which is held every five years. The census collects data from approximately 10 million households and over 25 million people. The data helps the government and businesses to make decisions. The ABS decided to run the census primarily online this year.

Census in the cloud

For the 2021 Census, ABS engaged PwC Australia to create a robust Census Digital Service, hosted on Amazon Web Services. The 2021 Census was the first time it has been run on the cloud. During the census, AWS was able to handle the web traffic generated by millions of users.

The PwC solution built on AWS allowing ABS to automatically scale up the website as the demand increased and managed to deliver a fast and consistent experience. It was tested for extreme user demand at more than 2,000 times the expected peak workload and was able to manage the traffic. On the census day, the ABS received approximately 142 online submissions per second and a peak of 249 logins per second.

Cybercriminals are attracted

AWS also stated that they implemented stringent security measures, including independent security and compliance assessment against the Australian Government’s Information Security Manual, through an Information Security Registered Assessors Program assessment. It is another fact that, the Census also attracted cybercriminals.

During the census, AWS, PwC, and the ABS blocked traffic from over 130,000 malicious IP addresses. The following day, the Australian Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar stated that there were no interruptions, excessive wait times, or security issues.

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Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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