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Why would Amazon do this?

by Fredbou
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My site has a number of AWstats entries with Amazon IP addresses. Does anyone have any idea why Amazon would do page views on my ArticleLeaf.com site? A lot of IP addresses with lots of page views lead back to Amazon.

IP:23.20.38.72 Pages:700 Hits:700 20 Nov 2012 - 14:41
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
    Originally Posted by Fredbou View Post

    My site has a number of AWstats entries with Amazon IP addresses. Does anyone have any idea why Amazon would do page views on my ArticleLeaf.com site? A lot of IP addresses with lots of page views lead back to Amazon.

    IP:23.20.38.72 Pages:700 Hits:700 20 Nov 2012 - 14:41
    Is that Amazon's main IP or is that just an IP under their control? It could easily be a website that's hosted with them that's crawling your site so they wouldn't have anything to do with it...
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    • Profile picture of the author Fredbou
      ec2-23-20-38-72.compute-1.amazonaws.com

      I didn't realize that Amazon does hosting. That would make sense. It could be a number of visitors rather than just one.
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
    amazonaws.com is for Amazon Web Services - with their application hosting being one of the most popular web services. I would assume it's another website that hitting your website and they are just hosted at Amazon.

    EDIT - also most of their hosting is in the cloud do I doubt you can narrow down the exact website with just the IP.
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