Mixed / general · Amazon
Amazonbot
Amazon's main crawler for improving services and enabling Alexa answers. Amazon says content Amazonbot collects may be used to train AI models.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Mixed / general
- Used for
- Alexa answers and Amazon AI services
- Obeys robots.txt
- Yes
- robots.txt token
Amazonbot- User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- IP list
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/
- Official docs
- developer.amazon.com
- Feeds
- Amazon Rufus (retired)
Block Amazonbot in robots.txt
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /Well-known sites that block Amazonbot
facebook.com #4, fbcdn.net #7, instagram.com #14, whatsapp.net #42, whatsapp.com #66, msn.com #92, snapchat.com #157, tumblr.com #160, gravatar.com #165, ebay.com #191, cnn.com #195, theguardian.com #196, medium.com #198, bbc.com #216, sciencedirect.com #224, bbc.co.uk #236, weather.com #250, launchpad.net #281, nature.com #297, washingtonpost.com #383, bloomberg.com #386, cnbc.com #474, aliexpress.com #497, uol.com.br #535
Other Amazon bots
Amzn-SearchBot (ai search index) · Amzn-User (user-triggered fetch)
Questions
What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot is a mixed / general bot operated by Amazon, used for Alexa answers and Amazon AI services. Amazon's main crawler for improving services and enabling Alexa answers. Amazon says content Amazonbot collects may be used to train AI models.
How do I block Amazonbot?
Add "User-agent: Amazonbot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect.
Does Amazonbot respect robots.txt?
Yes. Amazon documents that Amazonbot honours robots.txt directives.
How many websites block Amazonbot?
In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 14.9% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed Amazonbot.
Analysis using this data
- Who blocks AI crawlers? What 10,000 robots.txt files revealPublishers block training, not answers; half of all blocklists leak; Cloudflare writes the most common AI policy.
- The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.
How to cite this data
This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:
- Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
- Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amazonbot), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
- Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
- Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
- Cite the original source for single figures when you quote one reported number; it is linked in every row.
In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's Amazonbot — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.
Paul, K. (2026). Amazonbot — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amazonbot
Paul, Kuldeep. "Amazonbot — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amazonbot.
Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "Amazonbot — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amazonbot.
@misc{paul2026amazonbot, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {Amazonbot — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amazonbot}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }
<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amazonbot">Amazonbot — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)