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by iurisilvio 3123 days ago
I'm using it as a proxy with IP rotation. It is not a perfect solution, but solved my problem more than one time.

It is a lot cheaper than a "proxy as a service".
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chatmasta 3123 days ago
I thought lambda was configured to use a single exit IP that rotates every 4 hours. How many IP's are you getting via this method, and are you using any tricks (multiple accounts, etc) to get a wider variety of IPs?
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iurisilvio 3122 days ago
To be honest, I have no idea. Maybe I'm even wrong about why it works.

I have a toy service with ~200k requests/day to a public service and I was blocked all the time.

After I changed to use API Gateway + Lambda as a proxy, never had these problems again. I just monitor the 4xx and 5xx errors and they are almost zero now.

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