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Persistent AWS-hosted bot causing excessive traffic

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A website owner reports that an AWS-hosted bot is sending over 700 requests per second to their domain, causing significant analytics noise and forcing a renegotiation of their Cloudflare contract, while AWS support refuses to intervene.

Who's affected: A website owner

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A community-maintained blacklist service that aggregates IP ranges of verified malicious bots specifically hosted on major cloud providers.
  2. An automated tool that generates standardized, legally-framed abuse reports for cloud providers based on traffic logs.
  3. A browser-based tool that helps small site owners calculate and document the financial impact of bot traffic for insurance or legal claims.
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Real voices

“averaging over 700 requests/second for several months now.”

Source: Hacker News

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