How to Block Amazon AWS Traffic Print

Inside the Hawk Host cPanel, you can block individual IPs and ranges using our IP blocker interface. However, depending on the number of IPs, this may be time-consuming. Amazon AWS keeps a range of IPs at https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json, which we can parse to allow easier blocking.

The following commands can be performed on your account using SSH/Terminal.

List of IP ranges

curl -sf https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json | jq -r '.prefixes[].ip_prefix'

List of IP ranges with deny statement for .htaccess

curl -sf https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json | jq -r '.prefixes[].ip_prefix' | awk '{print "deny from " $0}'

You can also append this directly to your .htaccess file

curl -sf https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json | jq -r '.prefixes[].ip_prefix' | awk '{print "deny from " $0}' >> .htaccess

Complete Blocking by .htaccess Solution

echo "order allow,deny" >> .htaccess
echo "allow from all" >> .htaccess
curl -sf https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json | jq -r '.prefixes[].ip_prefix' | awk '{print "deny from " $0}' >> .htaccess

Remember that anytime Amazon updates its IP list, your list would now be out of date.