Keeping Pinterest in an Ocean of AWS Bots

Big Weed told me to not ban Pinterest. While I am not a huge Pinterest fan, she is/was so I listen to her. The problem is that Pinterest is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud host provider infamous for hosting bad bots. Here are the IP ranges to ban AWS but keep Pinterest coming back.

# AWS 52.192.0.0 – 52.223.255.255 52.192.0.0/11
deny from 52.192.0.0/13 52.200.0.0/16 52.201.0.0/17 52.201.128.0/18 52.201.192.0/19 52.201.224.0/20 52.201.240.0/21
# Pinterest 52.201.248.0/24 52.201.249.0/24
deny from 52.201.250.0/23 52.201.252.0/22 52.202.0.0/15 52.204.0.0/14 52.208.0.0/12

# AWS 54.160.0.0 – 54.175.197.255
deny from 54.160.0.0/13 54.168.0.0/14 54.172.0.0/17 54.172.128.0/20 54.172.144.0/21 54.172.152.0/22
# Pinterest 54.172.156.52
deny from 54.172.157.0/24 54.172.158.0/23 54.172.160.0/19 54.172.192.0/18 54.173.0.0/16 54.174.0.0/16 54.175.0.0/17 54.175.128.0/18 54.175.192.0/22 54.175.196.0/23
# Pinterest 54.175.198.69
deny from 54.175.199.0/24 54.175.200.0/21 54.175.208.0/20 54.175.224.0/19

There are other Pinterest ranges, sp treat them similarly.
# pinterest 54.236.1.0/24

If there are other Pinterest IPs that hit my site and are 403’d I’ll fish them out and part the seas for them.