This week, cyber assailants gained unauthorized access to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) control panel of code-hosting provider Code Spaces, rendering the service completely inoperable and without any possibility of continuation. EC2 is a component of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and offers virtual computers for rent, where users can run their own applications. The incident started on Tuesday, when the servers of the company were hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack,…