Amazonbot
GoodBotVerifiedAI CrawlerBOTOperated by Amazon Docs
What is Amazonbot?
Generated from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data
Amazonbot is a web crawler operated by Amazon. Amazonbot is Amazon's web crawler used to improve our services, such as enabling Alexa to answer even more questions for customers. Amazonbot is a polite crawler that respects standard robots.txt rules and robots meta tags. It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.
Details
- Bot Name
- Amazonbot
- Slug
- amazon-bot
- Kind
- BOT
- Verification
- Verified by Cloudflare
- Category
- AI Crawler
- Operator
- Amazon
User-Agent Patterns
AmazonbotFull User-Agent Strings
Main Use Cases
Why It Crawls Your Site
Amazonbot crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by Amazon as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
How to Block / Whitelist
Block Amazonbot
Add a Disallow rule for Amazonbot 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 Amazonbot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / # Allow Amazonbot full access User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /
Whitelist Amazonbot
Ensure your robots.txt allows Amazonbot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Amazon's documentation.
Related Bots from Amazon
Other crawlers operated by Amazon
Traffic & Trends
Cloudflare Radar Traffic
3.1% 4.5%
Share of total bot traffic observed by Cloudflare
Google Trends Interest
Links & References
Data Sources
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Last updated: May 26, 2026