IP address location lookup using AWS Services

Question

I have a Java application running on AWS instances, and which uses the AWS SDK for Java v1.12. I'd like to be able to lookup location information based on an IP address, such as city and state. Does AWS provide this service? If so, is there a basic Java example available somewhere?

Answer 1

While AWS does not offer it as a standalone service, if you only want to lookup the location of your calling clients, CloudFront CDN does offers extra headers you can use to achieve that.

For your use case you can have a look at:

• CloudFront-Viewer-Country
• CloudFront-Viewer-City
• CloudFront-Viewer-Country-Region

ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/using-cloudfront-headers.html#cloudfront-headers-viewer-location