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Amazonbot

Other crawler

Amazon crawler used to improve its products and services and potentially train Amazon AI models. Seen on 79 of 135 sites in 13 weeks.

Amazonbot reached 57 of 92 sites last week

Sites that got at least one Amazonbot request each week, against every site reporting that week.

Reach61%4th of 2663 of 104 sitesLast 4 weeks
Requests11.6M29% of all crawler requests13 weeks, 79 sites
Per site188a weekMedian where it visitsLast 4 weeks

Amazonbot is not tied to answers in an AI assistant.

Amazon says Amazonbot follows robots.txt. A rule changes future crawls, not pages it already collected.

Block Amazonbot
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
Allow Amazonbot
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
User agentMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36

Is it really Amazonbot?

Anyone can send the Amazonbot name. Here is how to check a request that carries it.

How to check
1Match the IP to Amazon's listAmazon publishes Amazonbot's addresses at developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/.
2Never count a secret-file requestA request for /.env or /.git is not a crawl, whatever name it carries.
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Common questions

What is Amazonbot?

Amazonbot is Amazon's other crawler. Amazon crawler used to improve its products and services and potentially train Amazon AI models.

How do I block Amazonbot?

Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: Amazonbot" followed by "Disallow: /". Amazon says Amazonbot follows robots.txt. A rule changes future crawls, not pages it already collected.

Does blocking Amazonbot hide me from AI?

No single bot rule hides a site from every AI product. Blocking 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.