What is in /soap/ ?
On my S3 Stat output, the top URL for all my buckets is /soap/
When I look through AWS Manager there isn't a directory called soap and there are no links to it on the site?
Is this the URL of the S3 soap API? If so, shouldn't it be somewhere else or do we get charged for bandwidth transfer on the API?
This probably belongs in our FAQ, since we get a lot of people wondering about it.Essentially, you're seeing the actions of a malicious robot trying to hack your "website". It doesn't know that it's looking at an S3 bucket, so it's trying a bunch of things that tend to work on poorly-secured web servers.It shows up in your logs (and therefore your stats) because it is in fact real traffic coming to your bucket. And yes, you are being charged for it (though likely not very much.) It usually just gets lost in the noise, but for extremely low-traffic sites, it can turn out to be the most common request to your bucket.
Jason Kester
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Does the same thing go for hits on the top level directory, "/"; this shows up as our top URL, with /soap/ as the close second. Good to know, thanks!
dana
Friday, January 14, 2011
Yep. There are plenty of crawlers that just stop by the "homepage" of every site they come across to see if there's anything interesting.
Jason Kester
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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