Amazonbot: Amazon's training crawler
Amazonbot belongs to Amazon. It downloads pages to build training data for AI models. Blocking it keeps your pages out of future training. It does not remove you from AI search results or from answers.
| Operator | Amazon |
|---|---|
| Used for | Alexa and Amazon AI |
| Type | Training crawler |
| robots.txt name | Amazonbot |
| User agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 |
| Published IP ranges | https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/ |
| Official documentation | developer.amazon.com/amazonbot |
Amazon says the data is used to improve its products and services and may be used to train Amazon AI models. W.X.Y.Z stands for the Chrome version.
Allow or block Amazonbot in robots.txt
To block it on the whole site:
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /To allow it explicitly (useful when a rule for all bots would block it):
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /Amazon says it respects robots.txt allow and disallow rules, doesn't support Crawl-delay, and may cache robots.txt for up to 30 days. It also honours the noarchive meta tag as "do not use this page for model training".
robots.txt is a request, not a wall. A CDN or firewall rule can turn a bot away even when robots.txt allows it, and nothing in the file will show that.
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Check my siteIs it really Amazonbot?
Anyone can send a request with this bot's name. Amazon publishes the IP ranges its requests come from, so a request that carries the name from another address is an impostor. You can check a request's IP address against that list.
See Amazonbot on your own site
Amazonbot doesn't run JavaScript, so analytics scripts never record it. AI Visibility in PageLens reads it from your server or CDN and shows which pages it requested, when, and which requests ended in a 404.