One thing that could help with the bots is leveraging some of the community generate blocklists for the ssh bots such as blocklist.de though there are other pro

One thing that could help with the bots is leveraging some of the community generate blocklists for the ssh bots such as blocklist.de though there are other providers. It may not stop all of them, but will cut down a lot on the noise. These are generally useful for any ssh instance exposed to the internet.