Amazonbot
Operated by Amazon · Powers Amazon products & AI models
Amazonbot crawls publicly available web content to improve Amazon's products and services. Amazon's official documentation states this crawl may also be used to train Amazon's AI models.
What it does
Amazon's own documentation states Amazonbot is used to improve Amazon's products and services, helping provide more accurate information to customers, and that this may include training Amazon AI models.
Amazon documents other, independently-controlled agents (Amzn-SearchBot for search experiences, Amzn-User for user-triggered requests) that Amazon states are not used to crawl content for generative AI model training — those are separate from Amazonbot.
Why this is optional to block
- Only affects whether your content contributes to Amazon's product improvement and AI training use
- Amazon documents this crawler as honoring robots.txt
- Whether to allow AI training use is a content-strategy decision, not a technical requirement
Identification & robots.txt
Amazonbot
Additional verification information is available in Amazon's official documentation.
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /