How to find out if an IP address belongs to a Hosting / Cloud Provider?

Posted on March 09, 2022 in Security • Tagged with API, Datacenter, Hosting, Cloud-Provider, IP API, Bot-Detection, VPN-Detection, IP-Intelligence, IP-Lookup • 8 min read

It is not entirely trivial to find out if an IP address belongs to a datacenter / cloud provider. In this blog article, I try to find an algorithm that outputs with high confidence if an IPv4 / Ipv6 address belongs to a hosting provider or not.


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API to Check if an IP Address belongs to a Datacenter / Cloud Provider

Posted on June 20, 2021 in Security • Tagged with API, IP-Address-Check, Datacenter, Cloud-Provider • 3 min read

For security reasons, it's often helpful to check if an IP Address belongs to a datacenter or cloud computing provider such as Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure. Therefore, I have developed a simple public API that helps you to check if an IP address belongs to a datacenter / cloud provider.


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