Title: amazonaws.com
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# amazonaws.com

 *  Resolved [verityr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verityr/)
 * (@verityr)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazonawscom/)
 * This last week I noticed dozens of hits coming from a bot known as amazonaws.
   com. Here are just a few of hits within a few minutes two days ago:
    ec2-52-34-
   209-246.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com ec2-54-83-73-161.compute-1.amazonaws.
   com ec2-54-82-156-32.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-54-205-65-244.compute-1.amazonaws.
   com
 * My Piwik blacklist is active. When I went to Github to see if it had been added
   to the database, I had to sign up. So, I started to install the desktop application
   that’s available, I noticed the download was coming from something that looked
   like this github.*****amazonaws.com.
 * I didn’t download it. So, this bot is coming from someone that’s supposed to 
   be protecting us from bots?
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 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazonawscom/#post-6826038)
 * amazonaws.com itself isn’t a bot, it’s Amazon’s hosting service, more than likely
   one of their clients were compromised and repurposed in to a bot.
 * Amazon is pretty good at catching that kind of behaviour so I wouldn’t expect
   it to last long.
 * Piwik does have an application, make sure you were on the right GitHub page: 
   [https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist](https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist)
 *  Thread Starter [verityr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verityr/)
 * (@verityr)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazonawscom/#post-6826072)
 * Thank you for replying so quickly!

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 * Last reply from: [verityr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verityr/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazonawscom/#post-6826072)
 * Status: resolved