How to block Amazon Prime Video

Do you know what format the Amazon prime URL's are in ? (be interested to know myself)  Not sure on that one myself, i would be tempted to play a video and look in the logs, or look at a historic log if its not something you can do yourself. And then block the videos by URL or URL matching.

When you go on the main page for Amazon video the URL is;

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prime-Video/b/ref=nav_shopall_aiv_piv?ie=UTF8&node=3280626031

"prime-video" changes according to what you selected so it can also be "amazon-video"

However any video that you play the URL changes to;

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/.........

Here is the grand tour URL:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J93ZB6Q/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_pbwan_2_1?_encoding=UTF8&pf_rd_i=home&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_p=869993807&pf_rd_r=0D2NDX4B7KKVW3GZN3XT&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=12401

I think it may have to be blocked by URL but when I spoke to a sophos technical support rep he suggested that amazon.co.uk maybe a subdomain to amazon.com and if the parent domain isn't blocked then it maybe impossible to do.

It looks like you could block

^https?://www\.amazon\.co\.uk/Prime\-Video

Any luck with that?

Cheers - Bob

Thanks bob,

I got a response from Sophos, they said "we can't block the subdomain while allowing the main domain" hence why it won't work.

Somehow, the REGEX I supplied above was not what I'd pasted in in the first place, so I've corrected that.

Why would you need to explicitly allow the domain in the first place?

Cheers - Bob

Thanks bud, i'll give it a go.

Our finance department need access for purchase's.

We just need a quick fix for now until we implement firewall rules via groups/devices as currently within this particular site the firewall rules applies to everyone.

Thanks bud, i'll give it a go.

Our finance department need access for purchase's.

We just need a quick fix for now until we implement firewall rules via groups/devices as currently within this particular site the firewall rules applies to everyone.