What makes this story extra silly is the fact that so many non-Amazon APIs have banned (either temporarily or in some cases permanently) the entire block of AWS

What makes this story extra silly is the fact that so many non-Amazon APIs have banned (either temporarily or in some cases permanently) the entire block of AWS IPs because of a few bad actors who have abused APIs from AWS instances. You'd think Amazon of all companies would be hip to the dangers of assuming that everyone behind a certain IP block is the same person, but I guess not.