Any legit traffic from amazonaws.com or can one assume it's all bots? I'm not going to null route all the requests, I just need to know if they are ALL bots so I can deal with them appropriately...
Any legit traffic from amazonaws.com?
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do you plan on resolving all connections to determine this? or do you know of a list of all ip blocks? (i'd like it)
I blocked based on hostname but found it causing a little too much a delay sometimes, so undid it and now have a seperate cron job to resolve ips that have connected and then iptable them
I blocked based on hostname but found it causing a little too much a delay sometimes, so undid it and now have a seperate cron job to resolve ips that have connected and then iptable them
Yeah I do all the analysis after the fact so it's no big thing. Amazing how many bots and scrapers are running on amazonaws!
First thing I do on a PPC campaign is dump a big list of Amazon AWS IPs into the IP block list. I've never had a single conversion from Amazon....
AWS is either
1. Foreigners trying to get past their countries firewalls or get US results (I can't convert international traffic on my campaigns)
2. Bots/spammers
3. Ad networks trying to fluff their impression count
Strangely enough I've never had a conversion from an Amazon device like their Fire tablets so I always turn those off too.
AWS is either
1. Foreigners trying to get past their countries firewalls or get US results (I can't convert international traffic on my campaigns)
2. Bots/spammers
3. Ad networks trying to fluff their impression count
Strangely enough I've never had a conversion from an Amazon device like their Fire tablets so I always turn those off too.
I think requests from kindle fire's go through amazonaws and they might be the only "legit" requests that do...