[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by fly

Did you read that? There is nowhere in that link that says that Amazon themselves crawl websites. Can you even explain why a hosting company would want to catalog data from every website on the internet?

I'm wondering if there is some confusion on what a user agent is and does. The UA is the remote web crawlers way of tell you that it is there cataloging your site. It's not required that a crawler send you a UA at all. Instead, its just considered polite. If someone wanted to, they could send a completely random UA every time or not send one at all.

Since Amazon AWS is in the hosting business, they have no need to crawl websites at all. However, this doesn't PREVENT people from buying their own server from Amazon and crawling your website. If someone were to do this, the UA would be whatever they wanted it to be, not some form of "AmazonAWS".

Assuming what you're really trying to do is prevent anyone from buying a server from Amazon and accessing your website, you'll need to find all the IP blocks that AWS owns and block those. However, that is outside the scope of this mod.

The "amazonaws" crawlers have that designation in their UA string. Anything else coming from Amazon has it in its host description.

The rest of your missive, I am well aware of.