diff --git a/ansible/roles/ooni-backend/templates/nginx-api-fsn.conf b/ansible/roles/ooni-backend/templates/nginx-api-fsn.conf
index 9d6e1451..804c61e0 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/ooni-backend/templates/nginx-api-fsn.conf
+++ b/ansible/roles/ooni-backend/templates/nginx-api-fsn.conf
@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ server {
       # If remote_addr is ams-pg trust the X-Real-IP header
       set $external_remote_addr $http_x_real_ip;
     }
+    if ($remote_addr = "3.71.175.168") {
+      # If remote_addr is our AWS instance, trust the X-Real-IP header
+      set $external_remote_addr $http_x_real_ip;
+    }
     proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $external_remote_addr;
 
     proxy_cache apicache;