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Amazonbot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

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. Operated by Amazon.

GoodBot
Assessment
AI Crawler
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Amazonbot?

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.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
Amazonbot
Operator
Amazon
Category
AI Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
amazon-bot
User-agent patterns
Amazonbot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonbot/0.1)
Main use cases
AI model training data collectionContent analysisWeb data extraction

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.

Block or allow Amazonbot

Block it

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: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

Cloudflare Radar traffic
3.4%

Share of bot traffic observed by Cloudflare Radar.

Google Trends interest

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated September 8, 2026

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