Amazon
Amazonbot— crawlers from Amazon
Crawls for Alexa and other Amazon AI services.
Amazonbot fetches pages to support Alexa's answers, Amazon Q, and other Amazon AI features. It honors robots.txt and identifies itself clearly. Allow if you want to be cited by Alexa or Amazon's AI services; disallow to opt out.
Vendor
Amazon
Category
Crawlers (training & indexing)
User-Agent
Amazonbot
Documentation
robots.txt snippets
Allow
User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /
Disallow
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
FAQ
What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot fetches pages to support Alexa's answers, Amazon Q, and other Amazon AI features. It honors robots.txt and identifies itself clearly. Allow if you want to be cited by Alexa or Amazon's AI services; disallow to opt out.
What is the user-agent string for Amazonbot?
Amazonbot identifies itself with the user-agent token "Amazonbot". You can match it in robots.txt with "User-Agent: Amazonbot" and route nginx / log-analyzer rules against that token.
How do I allow Amazonbot in robots.txt?
Add the following block to your /robots.txt — this explicitly grants Amazonbot access:
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
How do I block Amazonbot in robots.txt?
Add the following block to your /robots.txt — note that well-behaved bots honor this, but not every crawler does:
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
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