What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot is a web crawler operated by Amazon that builds an index of web content to improve Amazon products and services, including Alexa, Kindle, and Amazon Shopping. The indexed content may be used for training and improving Amazon's AI and machine learning models. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Amazonbot visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36 |
| Operated By | Amazon |
| Source | Official Website |
| Identity |
Verified
Verified Identification
Requests claiming to be this agent can be authenticated using its published verification method. |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Yes |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Amazonbot Visiting My Website?
Your content matched the criteria Amazon set for a training dataset. Amazonbot typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.
Should I Block Amazonbot?
Block Amazonbot if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 18% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Amazonbot.
How Do I Block Amazonbot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Amazonbot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data scrapers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Amazonbot # https://knownagents.com/agents/amazonbot
Disallow: /Insights for Amazonbot
As of October 30, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Amazonbot?
Amazonbot tends to make broad, high-volume sweeps across many pages. Timing is unpredictable: traffic may remain heavy throughout a collection pass, then stop entirely.
Does Amazonbot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Amazonbot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Amazonbot respects it.
Is Amazonbot Used for AI Model Training?
Yes. Amazonbot collects web content for use in AI training datasets. Blocking it limits future collection but cannot remove content that was collected previously.
Does Blocking Amazonbot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. Blocking Amazonbot limits collection for AI training rather than controlling a live AI search index or citation system.
Does Amazonbot Access Private Content?
Not through legitimate access. Amazonbot primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.
How Can I Verify a Request From Amazonbot?
Agent Analytics tracks visits from Amazonbot and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using Amazonbot's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Amazonbot". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be Amazonbot.
How Is Amazonbot Different From Other Amazon Agents?
Amazon operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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