[Answered ]-How to protect Malicious attack on django website

If there is some kind of malicious attack happening. There are couple of things you should do

1. Enable AWS Guard Duty to detect the resources under attack.
2. Put your web server behind an application loadbalancer and enable waf on alb. This will act as a firewall for your webserver. Make sure you test this solution in your uat environment before implementing it into production

Maybe your server is a very low EC2 instance, or you have a limited "pay as you go" plan, so this spider that wanted to hack into your server using all the resources.