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Massive amount of traffic from Amazonaws crawling site.
Posted: Wed May 03, 2023 6:03 pm
by TomSut
Noticed an unusually large amount of people online in the back end of Opencart yesterday, had a look a the IP addresses and it's coming from amazonaws.com in Singapore. It's a new IP address every 30 seconds looking up a product tag. It's never the same IP address twice. Some of the IP addresses just this second are 13.213.124.120 or 52.77.191.219 or 13.213.241.3 or 18.140.93.4 I've got 1000s of them from just one day. It can't be any benefit to me having this using up my bandwidth. Any Idea how to stop it?
Re: Massive amount of traffic from Amazonaws crawling site.
Posted: Wed May 03, 2023 9:26 pm
by Johnathan
Check to see if they have a particular user agent. If so, you should be able to block it based on that.
Otherwise, you may have to use some blocking service like Cloudflare or Bitninja. They may be able to automatically detect it, but you may have to look into rate limiting, or something that blocks visitors specifically looking for whatever the bots are looking for.
Re: Massive amount of traffic from Amazonaws crawling site.
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 12:30 am
by johnp
TomSut wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 6:03 pm
Noticed an unusually large amount of people online in the back end of Opencart yesterday, had a look a the IP addresses and it's coming from amazonaws.com in Singapore. It's a new IP address every 30 seconds looking up a product tag. It's never the same IP address twice. Some of the IP addresses just this second are 13.213.124.120 or 52.77.191.219 or 13.213.241.3 or 18.140.93.4 I've got 1000s of them from just one day. It can't be any benefit to me having this using up my bandwidth. Any Idea how to stop it?
Try sticking Cidram on. It blocks traffic from known bad sources. You can also enable a captcha on it. Although not a total solution it is IMO a valuable extra layer of protection.
https://github.com/CIDRAM/CIDRAM
Also consider sticking a firewall on like Ninja Firewall:
https://nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall/pro-edition
Re: Massive amount of traffic from Amazonaws crawling site.
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2025 5:33 pm
by Elinahav
I’ve seen sudden spikes of random IPs from amazonaws hit my sites before, and it’s super annoying, especially when it eats up server resources like that. In my case, I started by adding rate limits and blocking whole IP ranges related to AWS in my firewall, but the real pain is they always switch IPs so quick. Sometimes even captchas barely help, but anything that slows the flood is worth a try.
Re: Massive amount of traffic from Amazonaws crawling site.
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2025 6:01 pm
by johnp