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Q & A Security · September 3, 2026

Which cloud services are most vulnerable to subdomain takeover?

Public research repeatedly names AWS S3, Azure Cloud Apps / Azure Websites / Azure Traffic Manager, Heroku, GitHub Pages, Elastic Beanstalk, Shopify, and Fastly as the most-abused surfaces. The pattern is the same everywhere: any service that lets you claim a hostname on a shared domain (*.s3.amazonaws.com, *.azurewebsites.net, *.herokuapp.com) is a candidate whenever the customer forgets to delete their DNS after they leave the service.

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What Is a Subdomain Takeover? (And Why Microsoft Had 670 of Them)
Subdomain takeover is the class of bug where a `CNAME` points to a service you already gave up — like an old S3 bucket, an expired Azure Cloud App, or a decommissioned Heroku dyno. An attacker registers the abandoned resource, and now they serve traffic from your subdomain.