Safeguarding AI Model Serving from Attacks with Shield
PythonTo safeguard an AI model serving deployment from attacks, a cloud infrastructure provider like AWS provides a managed service called AWS Shield. AWS Shield offers protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It's important to use services like AWS Shield to secure your AI model-serving infrastructure because it ensures that your application remains available and responsive, despite any malicious attempts to disrupt service.
In our Pulumi program, we will use several AWS resources to protect our AI model serving deployment:
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AWS Shield Protection: This resource connects AWS Shield to your application, offering DDoS protection. Shield Advanced provides additional protections and attack mitigation capabilities, which are critical for AI model serving applications.
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AWS Shield Advanced Health-based Detection: Incorporating Route 53 health checks can improve the responsiveness and accuracy of attack detection and mitigation.
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AWS Shield ProtectionGroup: Useful for grouping together resources, such as Elastic IP addresses or CloudFront distributions, that represent your application, to apply protection policies.
Here's a Pulumi program in Python that sets up AWS Shield Protection for an application, including AI model serving endpoints:
import pulumi import pulumi_aws as aws # Replace `example_cloudfront_distribution_arn` with your actual CloudFront distribution ARN example_cloudfront_distribution_arn = "arn:aws:cloudfront::123456789012:distribution/EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE" # Create an AWS Shield Protection resource to protect the CloudFront distribution. shield_protection = aws.shield.Protection("shieldProtection", resource_arn=example_cloudfront_distribution_arn) # Set up health checks with AWS Route 53. This could be extended to health checks directly on the model serving endpoint if applicable. health_check = aws.route53.HealthCheck("healthCheck", health_check_config=aws.route53.HealthCheckConfigArgs( type="HTTP", fully_qualified_domain_name="example.com", request_interval=30, failure_threshold=3, )) # Associate health checks with your AWS Shield Protection for improved DDoS response. shield_protection_health_check_association = aws.shield.ProtectionHealthCheckAssociation("shieldProtectionHealthCheckAssociation", health_check_arn=health_check.arn, shield_protection_id=shield_protection.id) # Export the ID of the Shield Protection and the Health Check association details. pulumi.export("shield_protection_id", shield_protection.id) pulumi.export("health_check_arn", health_check.arn) pulumi.export("protection_health_check_association_id", shield_protection_health_check_association.id)
In this program, we define three main components:
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aws.shield.Protection
: This creates a Shield Protection resource targeting the CloudFront distribution, which would serve the AI models. Ensure to replaceexample_cloudfront_distribution_arn
with the ARN of your actual CloudFront distribution or the AWS resource you're using to serve your AI models. -
aws.route53.HealthCheck
: We define a health check that periodically makes requests to ensure the application serving the AI models is available. Thefully_qualified_domain_name
should be updated to your domain where the AI models are served. -
aws.shield.ProtectionHealthCheckAssociation
: This associates the Shield Protection with the health check, allowing for improved automated response to potential attacks detected via the health check.
To finalize, we export several important details, such as the Shield Protection ID, the health check ARN, and the protection-health check association ID. This information could be useful for you to query status information or for further integrations with your infrastructure monitoring.
For more information on the used resources and their configurations, you can check the following documentation:
This setup gives you a baseline defense against DDoS attacks. For advanced configurations and fine-tuned control over your protection, deeper integration with your application specifics, and review of AWS Shield capabilities, are recommended.
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