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Amazonbot

OperatorAmazon
PurposeTraining
Follows robots.txtYes
SourceOfficial docs ↗

Amazon's crawler, used to improve Amazon products and services. Amazon says the content may be used to train Amazon AI models.

What happens if you block it

Amazonbot stops fetching your content, including for possible AI training. Alexa search is controlled separately by Amzn-SearchBot.

Our take

Block it to opt out of Amazon training while keeping Amzn-SearchBot allowed.

robots.txt

To block it:

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

To allow it explicitly (useful when a wider rule blocks other bots):

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

The operator's own words

Amazonbot is used to improve our products and services. This helps us provide more accurate information to customers and may be used to train Amazon AI models.Amazon documentation, checked 2026-10-31

Other Amazon agents

Amzn-SearchBot
Amazon

Amazon's search crawler for experiences such as Alexa.

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