Datacenter intelligence record
Amazon Web Services AS16509
Usually allowAmazon Web Services · AS16509 · Cloud datacenter · US
Datacenter
AS16509
Hyperscaler
WA, US
Confidence: High
- Provider
- Amazon Web Services
- ASN
- AS16509
- Country
- US
- Classification
- Datacenter Traffic
Handling Guidance
Usually allow- 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- Provider
- Amazon Web Services
- Organization
- Amazon.com, Inc.
- ASN
- AS16509
- ASN name
- AMAZON-02
- Network
- AMAZON-02
- Country
- US
- Region
- WA
- Services
- EC2, cloud hosting, managed services, API clients, crawlers, scrapers, automation
- Provider type
- Hyperscaler
- Network type
- Cloud Datacenter
- Classification
- Datacenter Traffic
- Traffic label
- Datacenter
- Confidence
- High
- Risk
- Low
- 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: Amazon Web Services traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
- Detection notes: Match by ASN AS16509. 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: Removed broad /8 sample ranges. AWS ranges are dynamic and should be consumed from the official JSON feed for enforcement.
Intelligence Summary
- Amazon Web Services is tracked by Botcrawl as cloud datacenter associated with AS16509. Traffic from this network should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
- Amazon Web Services 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
- Primary source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ip-ranges.html
- Secondary source: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json
- Provider URL: https://aws.amazon.com/
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