What is Amazonbot ?
Amazonbot is a web crawler operated by Amazon. Its main function is to collect publicly available web data, which may be used for training machine learning models or other content indexing purposes within Amazon’s ecosystem. According to Amazon’s official disclosure (here), the bot is used to improve services such as Alexa, product recommendations, and potentially AI model development. It accesses web pages using several user-agent variants, including M…
Who is operating Amazonbot ?
Amazonbot is managed by Amazon.com, Inc., the multinational technology company headquartered in Seattle. The bot’s infrastructure is linked to Amazon’s broader AI and cloud platform services. Technical details and user-agent documentation are publicly maintained at developer.amazon.com.
Why you should be interested in Amazonbot ?
This crawler may access and reuse your site’s content for model training or internal Amazon indexing. Even if your site isn’t listed on Amazon’s properties, your data could feed into Alexa voice queries, semantic understanding engines, or other proprietary services. Amazonbot is known to crawl frequently and at scale. From a risk management perspective, any webmaster concerned with data sovereignty or content reuse should monitor its activity.
How to block Amazonbot ?
1. robots.txt File :
Add the following rule to your robots.txt file
# block Amazonbot User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
2. Sub-agent coverage :
Amazonbot has sub-agents like Amazonbot/1.0 and Amazonbot/2.0. A general “Amazonbot” block covers all.
3. Header verification :
Amazon recommends checking both the user-agent string and the reverse DNS to verify authenticity, as documented in their official guidelines.
About the bot
Owner: Amazon.com, Inc.
Owner URL: amazon.com
Bot URL: developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot
Bot User Agent: Amazonbot/1.0 (+https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
Respects robots.txt: Yes
