AS699

AS699 is a legacy, low-numbered autonomous system now registered to Amazon Technologies, Inc. under the ARIN RDAP name AMAZON-LEO-TERRESTRIAL. The registry status is Active, but the ASN currently announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes and has not been visible in the global routing table since roughly late February 2026 — an administratively active but operationally dormant record.

The RDAP entry ties the ASN to Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), Amazon's low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband initiative, publicly rebranded in November 2025. The naming suggests AS699 covers terrestrial ground-segment infrastructure — gateway stations and backhaul links — supporting the satellite constellation, distinct from AWS's core cloud network, which runs under AS16509.

AS699 is a very low ASN number long associated with IBM in legacy community and third-party database records. No operator-official source confirms present-day IBM operation, and the current live RDAP record shows no IBM linkage at all; any IBM attribution should be treated as historical or stale, not current.

Multiple independent routing sources (RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools) agree the ASN is not presently announced. It historically originated at least two IPv4 /24 blocks (35.111.160.0/24 and 35.111.164.0/24) with a single observed BGP relationship to AS16509 (Amazon.com, Inc.), and CAIDA's customer cone shows it as a singleton with zero downstream ASNs, prefixes, or addresses.

ARIN RDAP's top-level autnum record carries a registration event dated 2021-09-14 and a last-changed event dated 2025-12-04 — both first-party RIR facts, confirmed distinct from several decoy entity-level dates present in the same document (individual POC and organization records dated as early as 2005 and as late as 2026).

Operator

Amazon Technologies, Inc. (RDAP org handle AT-9066; RDAP autnum name AMAZON-LEO-TERRESTRIAL) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/699

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP

Allocated

2021-09-14 (ARIN RDAP top-level autnum registration event); last changed 2025-12-04 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum top-level events, cross-verified by three independent research angles against decoy entity-level dates in the same document

Org status

Active (RDAP status) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP

Contacts

amazon-leo-trust-and-safety@amazon.com (abuse, per RIPEstat); amzn-noc-contact@amazon.com (NOC, RDAP entity); geofeed at geo-ip.leo.amazon.com/geo-ip-feed.csv [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net, rdap.arin.net

Security/abuse context

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-23 — Spamhaus ASN-lookup API 404, no abuse.ch/AbuseIPDB/NANOG-archive hits

Network & routing

Network type

Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) terrestrial/ground-segment network supporting Amazon's LEO satellite broadband constellation [Likely] — RDAP naming, aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/devices-services/amazon-leo

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4/IPv6 prefixes announced; historically originated 2 IPv4 /24 blocks (512 addresses); customer cone = singleton (1 ASN, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses) [Confirmed] — RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools

Routing/peering

NOT announced since ~2026-02-27; single historical BGP relationship to AS16509 (Amazon.com, Inc.); absent from Amazon's own PeeringDB org listing (org/1520); AWS's general settlement-free peering policy text scopes itself to AS16509 and does not name AS699 [Confirmed for non-announcement; Unknown for policy applicability] — bgp.he.net, bgp.tools, peeringdb.com/org/1520, aws.amazon.com/peering/policy/

RPKI

not assessable — no announced prefixes, so no ROAs to validate [Unknown] — bgp.tools

Notable usage

historically a low-numbered ASN associated with IBM in legacy community/database records; current live RDAP shows no IBM linkage and reassignment to Amazon Technologies, Inc. under the Amazon Leo terrestrial network [Confirmed for Amazon reassignment; Unknown for any current IBM linkage] — rdap.arin.net, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Leo

Related ASNs

AS16509 (Amazon.com, Inc. — AWS core network; AS699's single observed BGP relationship) [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net

Analyst note

Encountered as an administratively-active but operationally-dormant ASN reassigned from an IBM-era legacy number to Amazon's Leo/Kuiper satellite ground network; live routing withdrawn since roughly February 2026.