Datacenter intelligence record
Google Global Network AS15169
Usually allowGoogle Global Network · AS15169 · Cloud and Google service infrastructure · US
Datacenter
AS15169
Search / Hyperscaler
CA, US
Confidence: High
- Provider
- Google Global Network
- ASN
- AS15169
- 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
- Google Global Network
- Organization
- Google LLC
- ASN
- AS15169
- ASN name
- Network
- Country
- US
- Region
- CA
- Services
- Google services, Googlebot infrastructure, Google APIs, cloud-adjacent services
- Provider type
- Search / hyperscaler
- Network type
- Cloud And Google Service Infrastructure
- 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: Google Global Network traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
- Detection notes: Match by ASN AS15169. 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: Separate from Google Cloud AS396982 because Google-owned service traffic and Google Cloud customer traffic are not identical.
Intelligence Summary
- Google Global Network is tracked by Botcrawl as cloud and google service infrastructure associated with AS15169. Traffic from this network should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
- Google Global Network 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://www.gstatic.com/ipranges/goog.json
- Secondary source: https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/security/obtain-google-ip-address-ranges
- Provider URL: https://www.google.com/
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