A blogger discovered that a sudden traffic spike from 600 to 2,800 daily reads was caused by AI bots crawling his site, not human readers. He identified the bots using AWS WAF and CloudFront logs, the…
AWS introduced two architecture patterns to secure Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF, using an internet-facing Application Load Balancer and a VPC Interface Endpoint. The patterns address …
Cloudflare opened a July 1, 2026 waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, which lets customers charge per request for pages, datasets, APIs, and MCP tools using the x402 payment protocol. The service mo…
AWS WAF introduced AI traffic monetization, enabling content providers to charge AI bots for access via HTTP 402 Payment Required. The feature, integrated with Bot Control and CloudFront, uses the x40…
AWS announced new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore at its New York Summit, including web search integration, managed knowledge bases, and AI traffic monetization via AWS WAF. The company also…
AWS WAF announced AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that lets content owners price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. The feature…
AWS has introduced a new feature in its WAF Bot Control suite that allows publishers to monetize AI bot and agent traffic. The feature uses the HTTP 402 status code and the x402 open protocol to handl…
AWS WAF launched an AI traffic monetization capability that lets content owners charge AI bots for access to web content at the network edge. The feature enables per-request pricing by content path or…