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by gjsman-1000 532 days ago
40% of the internet’s traffic now is bots, with about half of those being malicious. Fail2ban is decent for a very small DDoS, but useless for one with any substance, and also useless against bots scraping data or probing for weaknesses.

Also remember, especially on AWS, bandwidth is expensive. A CDN cache + blocking bots = big savings.