alt Hacker NewsGood place to ask, saw a new AWS User agent in logs today: Amazon-Quick-on-Behalf-of-$HEXID
I found a mention on some user agent trackers but no official documentation. Anyone knows if it’s documented? Asking because I am seeing decent traffic (30GB/week) from this.
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iLoveOncall • yesterday at 10:44 PM
Amazon Quick is the new name of Quicksight, which is the BI tool from AWS.
It has AI agents included so I guess this can just come from it searching the web based on user requests.
Came across this recently too, seems to be from "Amazon Quick" where crawling other's websites is basically a feature of the product: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/web-crawl...
> Crawling behavior [...] Crawler identification: Identifies itself with user-agent string "aws-quick-on-behalf-of-<UUID>" in request headers.
Maybe people found a way of using it as a loophole for something or Amazon Quick is just picking up in usage, and your website is popular amongst whoever uses that sort of stuff.