Overview
Amazon Q is an AI training crawler from Amazon used for AI model training, dataset discovery, and collection of public web content for model-development pipelines.
Its primary user-agent pattern is amazon-QBusiness; related patterns include amazon-q; Amazon Q Business Web Crawler.
Amazon Q is Verified from current authoritative identity documentation reviewed on 2026-08-07. The identity type is Official Documented.
Amazon Q is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
Amazon Q can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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amazon-QBusiness - Aliases
- amazon-q; Amazon Q Business Web Crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
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amazon-QBusiness - Robots Token
- amazon-QBusiness
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `amazon-QBusiness` to the current operator documentation and corroborate the request with operator-controlled verification signals where available; User-Agent strings alone can be spoofed.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Amazon
- Purpose
- AI training
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Amazon Q is used for AI model training, dataset discovery, and collection of public web content for model-development pipelines.
- Detection Notes
- Amazon Q traffic is primarily detected by the `amazon-QBusiness` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `amazon-q; Amazon Q Business Web Crawler`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Amazon infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Amazon Q has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: amazon-QBusiness Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Amazon Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.