Amazonbot
AI training crawlerAmazon's web crawler. Amazon documents it as improving Alexa's ability to answer questions and other Amazon AI services, which can include training uses.
| Operator | Amazon |
| Type | AI training crawler |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes (documented) |
| Documentation | Official operator documentation |
Amazonbot user-agent string
This is how Amazonbot identifies itself in your server logs:
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 in robots.txt
Add this to the robots.txt file at the root of your site:
Block Amazonbot
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /Explicitly allow Amazonbot
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /What blocking changes: Your content is excluded from Amazonbot crawls used by Alexa answers and Amazon AI services.
Want to decide for all AI bots at once? Use the AI robots.txt generator.
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- GPTBot (OpenAI)
- ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
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