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AWS WAF announces AI traffic monetization

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Today, AWS WAF announced AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that lets you price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing your content and APIs. As AI agents increasingly support autonomous payments for the content and APIs they consume, AWS WAF now lets content owners and publishers set a price for that access, accept payment through third-party providers, and grant scoped access directly at the edge.

When an AI bot or agent requests a protected resource like an article, a data feed, or a licensed archive, AWS WAF returns a machine-readable HTTP 402 Payment Required response using the x402 open protocol for machine-to-machine payments. The response contains your prices to access the content, accepted payment methods, and license terms. The agent presents proof of payment, AWS WAF verifies it at the edge, issues a scoped access token, and serves the response within a single request cycle. With AWS WAF AI traffic monetization, you can configure pricing through the AWS WAF console, define AI bot or agent policies based on verification status (including Web Bot Auth signatures), and receive payouts in stablecoins to your preferred wallet. AWS WAF’s integration with payment settlement and verification flows are provided by Coinbase’s x402 Facilitator. Integration with Stripe for direct account payments and Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) support is coming soon.

Publishers can apply differentiated pricing based on agent identity and intent, allow verified AI search crawlers at one price while charging a different price to unverified agents or training crawlers, and validate end-to-end configuration in test mode before going live. Revenue analytics are available directly in the AWS WAF console alongside the AI traffic analysis dashboard, giving publishers a unified view of agent traffic and the revenue it generates.

Publishers receive payments directly from agents and manage disbursement through their chosen payment provider. AI traffic monetization is available to AWS WAF customers at no additional charge. Standard AWS WAF charges apply. Refer to AWS WAF pricing for details. 

This capability is available in all edge locations where AWS WAF Web ACLs are associated with Amazon CloudFront distributions. To get started, visit the AWS WAF console or explore the AWS WAF Developer Guide .

Free Network Bandwidth Amazon GameLift Servers is Here!

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Starting today, Amazon GameLift Servers provides network bandwidth in and out of AWS at no additional charge for all instance types from generation 6 and later, including On-Demand and Spot, with no commitment required. You now pay only for your Amazon GameLift Servers instance hours; all network bandwidth is free.

Multiplayer game servers generate continuous network traffic to connected players, making bandwidth one of the most unpredictable cost components for game studio customers. With free network bandwidth included, Amazon GameLift Servers eliminates this cost, giving you the simplicity of bare-metal hosting with the global reach of AWS.

Free network bandwidth applies with no enrollment, pricing agreement, or configuration change required. Existing customers on eligible fleets receive the benefit immediately. It is now available in all Amazon GameLift Servers supported regions, except China.

To learn more, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers documentation  or pricing page .

 

Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm) region

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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances are available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% higher performance than C7i instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The C8i are up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models, and 35% faster for Memcached stores compared to C7i and C7i-flex.

C8i instances are a great choice for all memory-intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. C8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications.

To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console . Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information about the new C8i instances visit the AWS News blog .

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