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bedrockbot is an Amazon Bedrock web crawler connector token for customer-configured AI applications.

Not tied to answers in an AI assistant.

Is bedrockbot allowed on your site?3 Amazon bots

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
bedrockbot
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
How to verify it
Not published
Seen on
Not measured
Last checked
11 June 2026

Should you block bedrockbot?

A hit usually means your URL was selected for a Bedrock application data source, not a broad Amazon crawl.

What blocking each Amazon bot does
Amazon botJobIf you block it
Amzn-SearchBotSearchAllowing it makes your content eligible to appear in Amazon search experiences such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI model training.
Amzn-UserUser fetchBlocking it can stop Amazon assistants from reading your page when a customer asks about it directly.
AmazonbotOtherBlocking it limits Amazon’s general product-improvement and potential AI training crawl path. Amazon now uses separate Amzn-SearchBot and Amzn-User agents for search and live user requests.
bedrockbotThis pageOtherA hit usually means your URL was selected for a Bedrock application data source, not a broad Amazon crawl.
robots.txt
User-agent: bedrockbot
Disallow: /

Asks bedrockbot not to crawl any page. Other Amazon bots are unaffected. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Allowing bedrockbot only creates the possibility of retrieval. To find out whether your pages are selected, measure which answer engines actually cite your pages using a stable query set.

Also seen under Amazon’s name, but not in its current documentation: amazon-kendra, AmazonBuyForMe, NovaAct. Rules naming them control no documented Amazon crawler.

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

User-agentsource
bedrockbot

Version numbers change. Match the highlighted name, not the whole string.

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    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for bedrockbot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

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    Check the source

    Amazon publishes no IP ranges, reverse DNS or signatures for bedrockbot in the sources here, so it cannot be verified. Treat matches as unconfirmed.

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

Questions, answered.

bedrockbot is an Amazon Bedrock web crawler connector token for customer-configured AI applications.

Sources.

Officially documented. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

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    Amazon crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 11 June 2026

    docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/webcrawl-data-source-connector.html

First verified 11 June 2026. Last source check 11 June 2026.

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