Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month

Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month by sim7c00 on Saturday October 18, 2025 @04:57AM (#45625962)

i wouldnt assume someone sending 700 req per minute or so to a single domain repeatedly (likely to the same resources) will bother opening zip files.

the bot in the article is likely being tested (as author noted), or its a very bad 'stresser'.

if it was looking for content grabbing it will access differently. (grab resources once and be on its way).

its not bad to host zip bombs tho, for the content grabbers :D nomnom.

saw an article about a guy on here who generated arbitrary pngs or so. also classy haha.

if u have a friendly vps provider who gives unlimited bandwidth these options can be fun. u can make a dashboard which bot has consumed the most junk.

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Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month by mjmas on Saturday October 18, 2025 @08:07AM (#45626681)

This is using the builtin compression in http:

  Transfer-Encoding: gzip

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Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month by ruined on Saturday October 18, 2025 @05:56AM (#45626139)

nearly every http response is gzipped. unpacking automatically is a default feature of every http client.

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Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month by sim7c00 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:06AM (#45633622)

Accept-Encoding i think would be logical on scrapers these days but maybe its not helpful idk. server should adhere to what client requests afaik.

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