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Hi
Marcin Gondek's
comment above is correct with regard to IPv4 address exhaustion and such "never-used-before" confirmation being unavailable anywhere.
With regards to your requirement on
This is to avoid any potential bans from the platforms I am using
a simple test could be to allocate a Static IP, attach it to your Instance and make a sample call/request to the platform to check if the IP is blocked, which in all probability it won't be. And then you should be good to build your application further.
Thanks.
Thank you for your insightful responses. I understand that due to IPv4 address exhaustion, it’s challenging to confirm the allocation of a never-used IP address. I also appreciate the suggestion of making a sample call/request to the platform to check if the IP is blocked .
However, I still have a few concerns regarding the point of Marcin Gondek about how long AWS keep IP in recycle state before providing to new client, .. If an IP was previously used by a user who was then banned, and if the IP reputation has been fixed before being provided to a new user, does this mean that the IP’s previous activities have been completely cleared? Specifically, if a previous user used an IP to sign up for an Amazon Seller Central account for example wich is also my concern and got the account banned, and if I use the same IP to sign up for an account, can I assume that I won’t face any issues because the IP’s reputation or activity has been cleaned?
Hi Bryan,
I think that you will never get full confirmation that IP reputation is fine everywhere. It should be but no one will confirm it. I think that you should stay with assumption. Of course you check the IP reputation on some public pages, but even if you google for that you will see that there is a lot places/list and there no place that you can check it globally. Some of such list are even not available for public.
Thanks,
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Hi Bryan,
I assume that you are asking about IPv4.
I think that no one can confirm to get never used IP address because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion. Crucial is how long AWS keep IP in recycle state before providing to new client. This is something that I do not know.
I expect that AWS take care about IP reputation, so if bad user in past used some IP for bad things, this bad user is banned and IP reputation is fixed before providing to new user.
I think that you don't get such confirmation anywhere, even if you get own IP from RIR like RIPE or ARIN they also will be recycled.
Thanks,