Amazonbot: Amazon's general crawler
Amazon's general crawler, used to improve Amazon's products and services, which Amazon says may include training its AI models.
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- A few seconds.
- Nothing is stored.
Amazonbot at a glance
Everything Amazon documents about it, with links to the source.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Type
- AI training
- Used for
- Amazon's services, including model training
- Obeys robots.txt
- Yes. Amazon documents that Amazonbot follows robots.txt, so a rule for its token is honoured.
- robots.txt token
Amazonbot- User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
- IP addresses
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/
- Documentation
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
How to block Amazonbot
Collects text that may be used to train AI models. Blocking it keeps your pages out of future training data. AI answers can still cite you through the search crawlers.
Block the whole site
Add this group to robots.txt at the root of your site.
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
Block only some paths
List the paths; everything else stays open to Amazonbot.
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /drafts/
How to verify Amazonbot
Anyone can send a crawler's user-agent string. Where the request comes from is what proves it.
- 1
Find requests whose user agent contains "Amazonbot" in your server or CDN logs.
- 2
Check each source IP against Amazon's published list (developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/). A request from outside it is not Amazonbot, whatever it says.
- 3
Block what fails the check at the firewall. A robots.txt rule only reaches crawlers that choose to read it.
Other crawlers from Amazon
Each has its own token, and blocking one leaves the others untouched.
Frequently asked questions
Amazon's general crawler, used to improve Amazon's products and services, which Amazon says may include training its AI models. It has two siblings: Amzn-SearchBot for search and Amzn-User for requests a user makes.
Yes. Amazon documents that Amazonbot follows robots.txt, so a rule for its token is honoured.
Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site: "User-agent: Amazonbot" followed by "Disallow: /". To close only part of the site, list those paths instead of "/". To enforce the block rather than request it, deny the IP addresses Amazon publishes at your firewall.
No. Amazonbot is a training crawler: blocking it keeps your pages out of data that may train Amazon's models. AI answers that cite pages come from search crawlers, which have their own tokens, so blocking Amazonbot alone does not remove you from them.
Checked against Amazon's documentation on 29 September 2026.
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