AWS WAF announces AI activity dashboard for visibility into AI bot and agent traffic

Today, AWS WAF announced a new AI activity dashboard that provides centralized visibility into AI bot and agent traffic reaching your applications. With this launch, AWS WAF Bot Control expands its detection coverage to track more than 650 unique bots and agents, offering one of the most comprehensive AI bot detection catalogs available.

AI-powered bots and autonomous agents are rapidly reshaping web traffic patterns. AI search crawlers index content, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems fetch data in real time, and autonomous agents execute multi-step tasks across APIs and web applications. Without clear visibility, this traffic can increase infrastructure costs, affect application performance, and access content in ways that may not align with your organization’s security or business policies.

The AI traffic analysis dashboard provides a centralized view of AI bot and agent traffic across your protected resources. You can visualize AI traffic trends over time, identify the most active bots and frequently accessed paths, analyze request volumes by bot category and verification status, and take action directly using AWS WAF Bot Control rules, such as allowing verified AI search crawlers while rate-limiting or blocking unverified agents.

AWS WAF Bot Control's detection catalog now covers more than 650 unique bots and agents spanning categories including AI search engine crawlers, AI data collectors, AI assistants, and large language model training crawlers. The catalog is continuously updated, enabling customers to identify newly emerging AI bots as they appear.

For customers on flat-rate pricing plans, the dashboard is included with all paid plans. For WAF customers not subscribed to flat-rate plans, the AI traffic analysis dashboard is available at no additional cost. Refer to WAF pricing for details.

The new dashboard and expanded detection capabilities are available in all AWS Regions where AWS WAF is available.

To get started, visit the AWS WAF console or explore the AWS WAF Bot Control documentation.