“Cloudbots” are entirely free and very resilient, and offer all the uptime of a cloud service with no need for malware. They’re simply higher-energy-efficient, and nearly always available. Bad news for cloud service providers that use poor anti-automation measures. The size of the “cloud botnet” is limited merely by the amount of effort one wants to put into registering new instances. The “cloudbot” themselves were free and can be run as often as they like.”]