Amazonbot
Amazon · Products and services; may train models
What Amazon says it does
“Amazonbot is used to improve our products and services. This helps us provide more accurate information to customers and may be used to train Amazon AI models.”
The facts
| Operator | Amazon |
| robots.txt token | Amazonbot |
| Appears in access logs | Yes |
| User-agent string | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 |
| robots.txt | Honors robots.txt. Amazon's own words: automated crawling from these listed user agents respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol, honoring the user-agent and the allow/disallow directives. |
| IP list | https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/ |
| Documentation | https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot, read 4 Aug 2026 |
Allow or block it in robots.txt
To block Amazonbot entirely:
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
To allow it everywhere:
User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /
Verify a request is really Amazonbot
Match the requesting IP against the published list. Questions go to amazonbot@amazon.com per the docs.
The W.X.Y.Z in the user-agent string is Amazon's own placeholder for the Chrome version, printed here exactly as the docs publish it.
Observed on this property
Not observed here yet. This site logs every request from 15 named AI agents; logging began 4 Aug 2026. When Amazonbot first fetches a page, this section fills in from the log.