AI crawler · Amazon
Amazonbot: what it is and how to block it
Amazonbot crawls the web to improve Amazon's products and services, and Amazon says the content may be used to train its AI models.
BrandVector Editorial · Last verified Oct 8, 2026
- Operator
- Amazon
- Type
- AI training
- robots.txt token
Amazonbot- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per Amazon
- IP ranges
- Published
- Blocked by name
- 7.6% of top sites
What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot is Amazon's AI training crawler: it collects content that may be used to train AI models. In Amazon's words:
“Amazonbot is used to improve our products and services. This helps us provide more accurate information to customers and may be used to train Amazon AI models.”
“Each user agent setting is independent of the others, and may take ~24 hours for our systems to reflect changes.”
Amazonbot user agent string
Amazon documents this user agent string for Amazonbot:
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
In robots.txt, use the token Amazonbot, not the full string. Crawlers match on the token, and version numbers in the full string can change.
How many websites block Amazonbot?
In our Oct 8, 2026 check of 817 of the most-visited websites, 7.6% block Amazonbot by name for their whole site (62 sites).
| robots.txt rule for Amazonbot | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Blocks the whole site by name | 62 | 7.6% |
| Blocks part of the site by name | 42 | 5.1% |
| Names it but doesn't block it | 7 | 0.9% |
| Blocked only by a catch-all (*) rule | 25 | 3.1% |
For comparison, 0.1% of the same sites block Googlebot by name. The sites are the top 1,000 origins in the Chrome UX Report for August 2026; see how we measured.
How to block Amazonbot in robots.txt
Add this group to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain to block Amazonbot from your whole site:
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
To block only part of your site, list those paths instead:
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /private/
A group that names Amazonbot replaces your User-agent: * rules for it entirely (RFC 9309). If your catch-all group blocks paths that Amazonbot should also stay out of, repeat them in its group. To let Amazonbot in while a catch-all rule blocks others:
User-agent: * Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /
“Automated crawling from these listed user agents respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol, honoring the user-agent and the allow/disallow directives.”
What happens if you block Amazonbot?
Amazon doesn't document what blocking Amazonbot changes.
How to verify requests from Amazonbot
Amazon publishes the IP addresses Amazonbot uses. Check a request's IP address against that list before trusting its user agent, which any client can fake.
Other Amazon crawlers
- Amzn-SearchBot · Search
- Amzn-User · User-triggered
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