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what could be the reason for an amazon ip in my nginx access.log file?

3.88.16.48 - - [11/Nov/2023:19:20:07 -0300] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Get yourself crowdsec and the background noise of the web will be reduced in secounds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just about anyone can spin up resources in AWS and do whatever until they're caught.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are thousands of reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Have SSH open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It will likely be some sort of crawler

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I once had a Senior Infrastructure Engineer looking at the logs of our public VPN host. A VPN host that is open to the world on 0.0.0.0/0 because that's the requirement we had. This Engineer saw thousands of failed login attempts to the VPN; things like admin/admin admin/password1 etc. Regular internet crap, a bot will scrape the web page and try its luck then move on.

This person then decided to initiate security breach procedure and immediately shut down the VPN, because "we'd been hacked!".

There's a lot of noise on the internet. The challenge is working out the best way to isolate your resources just enough and block anything that doesn't need access. This is why things like Web Application Firewalls exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pro tip set up user agent blocks in nginx and have it respond with a 444 it will have nginx stop responding instead of giving a 403. Block anything under chrome 100.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oh, thanks for this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can also use the free version of cloudflare to block ddos, block traffic from certain countries, create page rules etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You will be in for a surprise once you learn about tcpdump ;-) Welcome to internet hosting!