# Amazonbot

> Improves Amazon products and services and, Amazon says, may be used to train Amazon AI models.

Canonical page: https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots/amazonbot · Facts checked against Amazon docs on 2026-10-20

| Operator | Used for | Type | Obeys robots.txt |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amazon | Amazon products and AI | AI training crawler | Yes |

## Should you allow it?

Your choice. Amazon's search crawler for Alexa answers is Amzn-SearchBot.

**If you block it:** Stops the Amazon crawler whose data may be used to train Amazon AI models. Alexa search uses Amzn-SearchBot instead.

Amazon's crawlers do not support Crawl-delay and may use a cached robots.txt up to 30 days old. Amazon says settings changes take about 24 hours.

Amazon also honors the noarchive robots meta tag as a page-level signal not to use a page for model training.

Amazon says allowing Amazonbot may make publishers eligible for its Content Partners benefits.

## robots.txt rules

Allow Amazonbot:

```
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
```

Block Amazonbot:

```
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
```

Disallow Amazonbot from one folder only:

```
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /private/
Allow: /
```

A bot follows the most specific User-agent group that names it and ignores the generic `User-agent: *` group, so repeat any shared Disallow lines inside it.

## Same company, different bots: Amazon

| Bot | Type | Purpose | Obeys robots.txt | If you block it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Amazonbot](https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots/amazonbot.md) | AI training crawler | Amazon products and AI | Yes | Stops the Amazon crawler whose data may be used to train Amazon AI models. Alexa search uses Amzn-SearchBot instead. |
| [Amzn-SearchBot](https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots/amzn-searchbot.md) | AI search index | Alexa and Amazon search | Yes | Your content is no longer eligible to appear in Amazon search experiences such as Alexa. |
| [Amzn-User](https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots/amzn-user.md) | User-triggered fetcher | Alexa (user requests) | Not reliably | A robots.txt rule may not fully apply; Amazon says it may not follow all directives. |

## User agent string

```
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
```

## How to verify it's really Amazonbot

Find its requests in your server logs:

```
grep -i "Amazonbot" access.log
```

Amazon publishes a separate IP address list for each of its crawlers.

Published IP list: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/

## Common mistakes

- Writing a User-agent: Amazonbot group and expecting your User-agent: * rules to still apply. A crawler follows only the most specific group that matches it and ignores the others, so repeat any shared Disallow lines inside the Amazonbot group.
- Leaving a CDN or host "block AI bots" setting on and only checking robots.txt. Those settings block requests at the network edge. Cloudflare, for example, changed its defaults on September 15, 2026 for customers who did not opt out: bots it classifies as Training or Agent are blocked on pages that display ads, and multi-purpose crawlers that combine Search and Training are affected by the Training block.
- Trusting the user agent header alone. Anyone can send "Amazonbot" in a request; verify the source IP as shown above before allowlisting or blocking.

## FAQ

### What is Amazonbot?

Improves Amazon products and services and, Amazon says, may be used to train Amazon AI models.

### Does Amazonbot respect robots.txt?

Yes, according to Amazon.

### What happens if I block Amazonbot?

Stops the Amazon crawler whose data may be used to train Amazon AI models. Alexa search uses Amzn-SearchBot instead.

### Should I block Amazonbot?

Your choice. Amazon's search crawler for Alexa answers is Amzn-SearchBot.

## Sources

- [Official documentation from Amazon](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot)
- [Published IP addresses for Amazonbot](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/)

Check whether Amazonbot can reach a site: https://getrankroot.com/tools/ai-crawler-checker or `GET https://getrankroot.com/api/bots?url=example.com`. Full list: https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots.md