My website is being constantly hit by scrapers from EC2 machines http://d.pr/i/bLtE . I went aggressive and blocked all access from Ec2 IP’s http://bit.ly/SUOaof until I realized that quite a few reader proxies like Flipboard are based out of Ec2 and blanket blocking of these amazon machines wont help. How is the community dealing with this problem? Can you advice?
Edit: I’ve seen somewhere that Stackoverflow blocks all the ec2 machines. I don’t think this is the most optimal solution considering many legit services. Also the hits come from different ip’s.
