Comment by to11mtm
15 hours ago
Big thing worth asking here. Depending on what 'amazon' means here (i.e. known to be Amazon specific IPs vs Cloud IPs) it could just be someone running a crawler on AWS.
Or, folks failing the 'shared security model' of AWS and their stuff is compromised with botnets running on AWS.
Or, folks that are quasi-spoofing 'AmazonBot' because they think it will have a better not-block rate than anonymous or other requests...
From the information in the post, it sounds like the last one to me. That is, someone else spoofing an Amazonbot user agent. But it could potentially be all three.