CloudFlare is going to have someone talking directly to a CloudFlare IP address, so it’s going to be visible.
AWS or GCP provide servers which might be behind something like CloudFlare. If they were deployed like that, I don’t believe that there’d be a straightforward way to determine that that’s where the server is hosted.
If it’s directly-accessible, and not using a CDN like CloudFlare, then it’d work the same way as if you were checking whether they’re using CloudFlare, just do a whois query on its IP address. I don’t know a real instance offhand directly-accessible on AWS, but to grab a random AWS hostname and Google Cloud Platform hostname:
$ host ec2-23-20-1-1.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-23-20-1-1.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 23.20.1.1
$ whois 23.20.0.0|grep ^NetName
NetName: AMAZON-EC2-USEAST-10
NetName: AMAZON-IAD
$ host 3.192.170.108.bc.googleusercontent.com
3.192.170.108.bc.googleusercontent.com has address 108.170.192.3
$ whois 108.170.192.3|grep ^NetName
NetName: GOOGLE
$
For a real host, we can just ad-hoc scrape lemmy.world’s instance list:
It seems you know your stuff.
Is there also a neat trick to find out if an instance rely on aws or gcp?
CloudFlare is going to have someone talking directly to a CloudFlare IP address, so it’s going to be visible.
AWS or GCP provide servers which might be behind something like CloudFlare. If they were deployed like that, I don’t believe that there’d be a straightforward way to determine that that’s where the server is hosted.
If it’s directly-accessible, and not using a CDN like CloudFlare, then it’d work the same way as if you were checking whether they’re using CloudFlare, just do a whois query on its IP address. I don’t know a real instance offhand directly-accessible on AWS, but to grab a random AWS hostname and Google Cloud Platform hostname:
For a real host, we can just ad-hoc scrape lemmy.world’s instance list:
So there’s the hostname of a real instance using AWS directly, c63b-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app.