Why Would Amazon Try to Log In to My Plex Server

General Discussions
1

The other day I received a notice from Little Snitch running on my iMac that the following IP address had attempted to log on to my Plex server: 34.244.145.207

This IP address belongs to Amazon.

Why would they try to log on to my Plex Server?

Whois results follow:

    NetRange:       34.192.0.0 - 34.255.255.255
    CIDR:           34.192.0.0/10
    NetName:        AT-88-Z
    NetHandle:      NET-34-192-0-0-1
    Parent:         NET34 (NET-34-0-0-0-0)
    NetType:        Direct Allocation
    OriginAS:
    Organization:   Amazon Technologies Inc. (AT-88-Z)
    RegDate:        2016-09-12
    Updated:        2016-09-12
    Ref:            https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-34-192-0-0-1
    


    OrgName:        Amazon Technologies Inc.
    OrgId:          AT-88-Z
    Address:        410 Terry Ave N.
    City:           Seattle
    StateProv:      WA
    PostalCode:     98109
    Country:        US
    RegDate:        2011-12-08
    Updated:        2017-01-28**
2

A large portion of the cloud infrastructure behind plex.tv is running on AWS, which is owned by Amazon.
https://aws.amazon.com/

The ping from there to your server is a routine check whether your server is still running and accessible for your clients.