Training · Amazon
Amazonbot
Amazon's web crawler, used to improve Alexa answers and other Amazon services. Amazon documents that it honours robots.txt and standard crawl-delay hints.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Training crawlers
- Feeds
- Alexa
- robots.txt token
Amazonbot- Honours robots.txt
- Honours robots.txt
- Documentation
- developer.amazon.com
What it looks like in server logs
A representative user-agent string. Version numbers change; the Amazonbot token does not. Paste your own log line into the user-agent checker to confirm a match.
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; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)How to block Amazonbot
Add this to the robots.txt at the root of your domain. Robots.txt is advisory: it works only on crawlers that choose to read it. This one is honours robots.txt according to its operator.
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
To block every training crawler at once, or to block training while keeping AI search citations, use the robots.txt generator.
How to allow Amazonbot while blocking others
A more specific User-agent group wins over a wildcard. Place this above any User-agent: * block that disallows paths, and Amazonbot keeps full access.
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
How to verify a genuine hit
The user-agent string is self-asserted: anyone can send it from a laptop, and scrapers routinely impersonate well-known crawlers to slip past filters aimed at unknown ones.
Reverse DNS of a genuine hit resolves to *.crawl.amazonbot.amazon.