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by judge2020 1724 days ago
Let me know if you get banned for doing nmap -p 22 on AWS or GCP.
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They used to block port scanning, back in 2015:

> When unauthorized port scanning is detected by AWS, it is stopped and blocked.

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It's not clear, now.

We get obnoxious security cgi scanner from palo alto networks tripping alerts all the time coming from gcp ranges
Or it’s not detected. They’re trying to avoid being blocked anyway.