About this bot
Amazon Route 53 Health Check Service is a health checker associated with Amazon Web Services and used for endpoint health monitoring.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is Amazon-Route53-Health-Check-Service. Representative HTTP request identity: Amazon-Route53-Health-Check-Service (ref <health-check-id>; report http://amzn.to/1vsZADi).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt is not recorded as a reliable control for this identity. Use server-side controls when restriction is required.
Risk classification: Safe. Evaluate request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Amazon-Route53-Health-Check-ServiceAmazon-Route53-Health-Check-Service (ref ; report http://amzn.to/1vsZADi)Amazon-Route53-Health-Check-Service (ref <health-check-id>; report http://amzn.to/1vsZADi) - Also known as
- Amazon Route 53 Health Check Service
Details
- Kind
- Health checker
- Family
- Amazon Route 53
- Purpose
- Endpoint health monitoring
- Common Use
- checking configured HTTP or HTTPS endpoints for Route 53 health status
- Respects robots.txt
- No
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the `Amazon-Route53-Health-Check-Service` User-Agent family and, when authentication matters, corroborate source addresses against the current AWS Route 53 health-checker network ranges or other AWS request context.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `Amazon-Route53-Health-Check-Service` token; requests may include a health-check reference identifier in the User-Agent.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt is not a reliable control for this identity. Use server-side access controls if restriction is required.