Is an Amazon IP a VPN?
Not by itself. AS16509 is Amazon infrastructure. Some VPN exits use cloud hosts, and so do ordinary servers. The ASN cannot tell those apart.
ASN lookup
AS16509
AS16509 is Amazon. Addresses on it are AWS or other Amazon infrastructure.. An ASN is the routing identity of a network, not a street address.
- Name
- AMAZON-02
- Handle
- AS16509
- Organization
- Amazon.com, Inc.
- Country
- United States (US)
The fields above are from RDAP via rdap.org on this request. Further reading: RIPEstat, Hurricane Electric, and Cloudflare Radar.
AS16509 is Amazon in this site’s list, checked 13 Oct 2026. AS14618 is the other Amazon ASN on that list. Traffic here is datacenter traffic. Mail servers, banks, and trading platforms often treat it as a VPN, proxy, or server. The classification does not tell you which AWS product, or whether a person is using a commercial VPN that rented an Amazon address.