Today, AWS WAF announced AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that lets you price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing your content and APIs. As AI agents increasingly support autonomous payments for the content and APIs they consume, AWS WAF now lets content owners and publishers set a price for that access, accept payment through third-party providers, and grant scoped access directly at the edge. When an AI bot or agent requests a protected resource like an article, a data feed, or a licensed archive, AWS WAF returns a machine-readable HTTP 402 Paym
Source: AWS What's New — read the full report at the original publisher.