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> there's no legitimate (non-crawling) reason for someone to request your site from an AWS resource

I used to run an X instance in the cloud that I would sometimes browse websites from. It sucked but it was also legitimate.



"Legitimate" is relative here. I would count you as using unusual software to hide your actual source address. Not a huge concern because if you're doing that, I assume you also know how to move around to avoid getting blocked.

In fact, the ability to move to a different cloud on short notice is also part of the CAPTCHA, because large cloud-based botnets usually can't. They'd get instabanned if they tried to move their crawling boxes to something like DigitalOcean.




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