Amazonbot

Operator

Amazon

Type

AI Search Crawler

Official page

developer.amazon.com

robots.txt token

Amazonbot

Follows robots.txt

Yes, according to Amazon.

Published IP ranges

developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under AI crawlers

What it does

Used to improve Amazon products and services, and may be used to train Amazon AI models.

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.

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User agent

Requests from Amazonbot carry user agents like these:

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36

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)

Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):

Amazonbot

Anyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.

How to block or allow Amazonbot

Add a group for its token to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To keep it out of the whole site:

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

To let it crawl everything, use an empty Disallow: or Allow: / instead. WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt that many SEO plugins let you edit. A real robots.txt file uploaded to the site root takes its place.

If you allow Amazonbot on your robots.txt

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Automated crawling from these listed user agents respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol, honoring the user-agent and the allow/disallow directives.

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robots.txt is a request, so it only works on crawlers that honour it. A bot that ignores it has to be blocked at the server or firewall, by user agent or IP address.

Worth knowing

Ignores crawl-delay. Uses a cached robots.txt up to 30 days old. Amazon's separate user-initiated fetcher, Amzn-User, may not follow all robots.txt rules.

They do not support the crawl-delay directive.

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How Vireo counts Amazonbot

Vireo keeps requests from Amazonbot out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under AI crawlers, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Because it's an AI crawler, its requests also count toward the pages AI crawlers took, which Vireo shows next to the readers AI assistants sent back. See how the AI assistants card works.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over Amazonbot's user agents.

Sources

• Amazon: crawler documentation (checked October 2026)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)
• ai.robots.txt (MIT)