Why it matters
AWS provides a four-step technical guide to authenticating automated agents with Web Bot Authentication: deploy WAF Bot Control, sign requests with Ed25519 HTTP Message Signatures, write rules against verification labels, and monitor attempts through WAF logs and CloudWatch.
My takeaway: Implement the workflow end to end: enable a static WBA-capable Bot Control version, publish and protect signing keys, map verified, invalid, expired, and unknown labels to explicit rules, then alert on abnormal failures. Treat verified identity as an input to authorization—not as authorization itself.