Amazon Web Services has launched a new way for publishers to charge AI bots and agents for accessing online content, replacing the choice between free crawling and outright blocking with automated pay-per-request access. The AWS WAF AI traffic monetization system lets website owners assign a USDC price to articles, data feeds, APIs, media files or other resources delivered through Amazon CloudFront. Payments can settle on Solana or Base through the x402 protocol, with funds sent directly to a wallet selected by the publisher.