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Datacenter proxy

Also calleddatacenter ip proxycloud proxy

Definition

A datacenter proxy routes traffic through IP addresses from cloud providers — cheap, fast, but easy for anti-bot systems to detect.

Explanation

In depth

Datacenter proxies use IP ranges assigned to AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, and other cloud providers. Because those ranges are known and published, anti-bot systems (Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX) can fingerprint and flag datacenter traffic. But for use cases where the destination does not care about IP reputation — reading pages, using apps, opening blocked sites — datacenter proxies are the standard choice because they are cheap, fast (gigabit uplinks), and ethically clear (the cloud provider assigned the IP to the proxy operator directly). AnyProxy uses datacenter IPs from six regions. For browser-based unblocking, this is the appropriate architecture. For scraping heavy anti-bot targets, residential proxies win.

See alsoResidential vs datacenter comparison

Related terms

Residential proxyA residential proxy routes traffic through IP addresses assigned to real home ISPs — high trust, high cost, often ethically opaque.ProxyA proxy is a server that acts on your behalf — it makes network requests for you and hands the responses back to your device.IP addressAn IP address is a numeric identifier assigned to each device on a network — how packets know where to go.CDN (Content Delivery Network)A CDN is a globally distributed network of edge servers that caches website content close to end users — reducing latency and origin server load.

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