Amazonbot
Amazon's crawler for improving its products and services. Amazon says the data may be used to train its AI models. It honors robots.txt but not Crawl-delay.
| Operator | Amazon |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Training — Amazon products and services, Amazon AI models |
| robots.txt token | Amazonbot |
| User-Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 |
| Obeys robots.txt | Yes, according to the publisher |
| Official IP ranges | Not published |
| Reverse DNS | Not documented |
| Official documentation | https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot |
Live activity of Amazonbot
No visit from Amazonbot recorded on iabig.com over the last 30 days.
Last updated: 2026-10-25 12:07:01 UTC. See the Observatory
What Amazonbot does
According to Amazon, Amazonbot is used to improve its products and services so it can give customers more accurate information, and the data it collects may be used to train Amazon's AI models.
What Amazon states:
- Its crawlers respect the Robots Exclusion Protocol, honoring user-agent and allow/disallow directives. They read robots.txt per host or use a cached copy up to 30 days old, and behave as if no file exists when it cannot be fetched.
- The
Crawl-delaydirective is not supported. - Page-level
noarchive(do not use the page for model training),noindexandnonemeta tags are respected, as is link-levelrel=nofollow. - Each agent's setting is independent, and changes may take about 24 hours to be reflected.
Amazon runs two other agents: Amzn-SearchBot, for search experiences such as Alexa and not used for generative AI training, and Amzn-User, which fetches live information to answer Alexa queries and may not follow every robots.txt directive.
Amazonbot's IP addresses are published on an HTML page rather than in a JSON file using the prefixes format. Amazon lists amazonbot@amazon.com for questions and asks you to include the relevant domain names.
Block or allow Amazonbot
Amazonbot should stop crawling your pages and therefore stop using them to train Amazon's models. Alexa search relies on Amzn-SearchBot, and the noarchive tag can refuse training alone.
To block it, add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /To allow it explicitly (copy any private rules you have):
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /A group naming Amazonbot replaces the User-agent: * group for it. Build a complete robots.txt with the generator and check it with the tester.
Verify a Amazonbot visit
Anyone can write “Amazonbot” in a User-Agent. Paste the IP address and User-Agent from your logs into the IP verifier to know whether the visit is genuine.