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AWS Security Scanner
AWS security vulnerability scanner
About this crawler
AWS Security Scanner is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AWS Security Scanner in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AWS Security Scanner traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- AWS Security Scanner
- Pattern
AWS Security Scanner- Tags
- scanner
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
AWS Security Scanner
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AWS Security Scanner:
User-agent: AWS Security Scanner
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AWS Security Scanner [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AWS Security Scanner") {
return 403;
}
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