Amazon Kendra

Name: Amazon Kendra
Author: Amazon

GoodBotVerifiedAI CrawlerBOT

Operated by Amazon Docs

What is Amazon Kendra?

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Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It employs web crawlers to ingest and index content from various data sources, including public websites and internal company resources. Kendra utilizes natural language processing to enable users to search unstructured data and receive contextual search results, improving the overall search experience.

Helpful — Kendra indexes web content to improve search capabilities for its users.

Details

Bot Name: Amazon Kendra
Slug: amazon-kendra
Kind: BOT
Verification: Verified by Cloudflare
Category: AI Crawler
Operator: Amazon

User-Agent Patterns

amazon-kendra-

Full User-Agent Strings

User-Agent 1amazon-kendra-customer-id-[id]

User-Agent 2amazon-kendra-web-crawler-*

Main Use Cases

Crawling and indexing web contentProviding natural language searchEnhancing enterprise search capabilities

Why It Crawls Your Site

Amazon Kendra crawls websites to index their content and make it searchable within the Kendra search service. This allows AWS customers to provide their users with a comprehensive search experience across a variety of data sources. The indexed data is used to answer user queries in natural language. You can verify the crawler by checking the User-Agent string and confirming that the requests originate from Amazon AWS infrastructure.

How to Block / Whitelist

Block Amazon Kendra

Add a Disallow rule for amazon-kendra- in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Amazon Kendra from crawling your entire site
User-agent: amazon-kendra-
Disallow: /

# Allow Amazon Kendra full access
User-agent: amazon-kendra-
Allow: /

Whitelist Amazon Kendra

Ensure your robots.txt allows amazon-kendra-. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Amazon's documentation.

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Traffic & Trends

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Links & References

Amazon Documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html

Cloudflare Radar: Amazon Kendra

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/amazon-kendra

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Last updated: May 26, 2026