Datacenter intelligence record

Akamai Connected Cloud / Linode AS63949

Log or rate-limit

Akamai Connected Cloud / Linode · AS63949 · Hosting / VPS datacenter · US

Datacenter AS63949 VPS / Cloud Hosting PA, US Confidence: High
ASN
AS63949
Country
US
Classification
Datacenter Traffic

Handling Guidance

Log or rate-limit
  • Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.
  • Datacenter matches are network-origin signals, not bot identities. Use them with request paths, cadence, user-agent evidence, and customer rules.
  • Browser-looking traffic from cloud, hosting, VPS, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.

Record Details

Provider and network data
Organization
Akamai / Linode
ASN
AS63949
ASN name
LINODE-AP
Network
LINODE-AP
Country
US
Region
PA
Services
Linode compute instances and developer cloud workloads
Provider type
VPS / cloud hosting
Network type
Hosting / VPS Datacenter
Classification
Datacenter Traffic
Traffic label
Datacenter
Confidence
High
Risk
Medium
Default action
Log
Rules supported
allow, block, rate-limit, log
Last verified
2026-06-25
Status
Active

Detection and Behavior

Operational guidance
  • Common traffic pattern: Akamai Connected Cloud / Linode traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
  • Detection notes: Match by ASN AS63949. Combine network identity with user-agent, path, rate, country, and rule outcomes before enforcement.
  • Behavior thresholds: Flag when request volume, identical user-agent reuse, API/feed scraping, login probing, search abuse, or repeated non-human path traversal exceeds normal visitor behavior.
  • Human monitoring relevance: Useful for separating datacenter-origin requests from real human visitor traffic. Agency human monitoring should not classify hosting/cloud requests as normal residential humans without additional signals.
  • Recommended action: Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.
  • Notes: Linode is now Akamai Connected Cloud.

Intelligence Summary

  • Akamai Connected Cloud / Linode is tracked by Botcrawl as hosting / vps datacenter associated with AS63949. Traffic from this network should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
  • Akamai Connected Cloud / Linode traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
  • Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.

Evidence and Source

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