Thousands of incoming HEAD requests - best way to handle with EC2?
I had unusually high https traffic recently from a couple of IP address with agents masquerading as Windows clients. I blocked the range via 'deny' inside of .htaccess (Apache 2.4) I'm still getting nearly 1,000 HEAD requests per second, which httpd is correctly responding with a 403...but the incoming pings are still coming. I'm on an AWS EC2 and was lookin