Bot intelligence record

Amazon Route 53 Health Check Service

Usually allow

Use the amazon-route-53-health-check-service identifier to separate Amazon uptime, accessibility, or site-health monitoring traffic from normal visitor requests in server logs.

Monitoring Verified Bot Confidence: Medium Verified: Yes robots.txt: Unknown
Operator
Amazon
Family
Amazon
Type
Monitoring
Source type
Verified Directory
Last checked
2026-05-20

User-Agent Pattern

Amazon
amazon-route-53-health-check-service
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

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User-agent: amazon-route-53-health-check-service
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.

Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Amazon
Family
Amazon
Type
Monitoring
Purpose
Monitoring
Identity type
Verified Bot
Confidence
Medium
Last verified
2026-04-19
Last checked
2026-05-20
Source type
Verified Directory
Verification
Public verified bot directory listing
Spoofing risk
Medium

Notes

Amazon Route 53 Health Check Service is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a monitoring bot from Amazon. The primary identifier for log review is amazon-route-53-health-check-service.

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: amazon-route-53-health-check-service
  • Family: Amazon
  • Type: Monitoring
  • Kind: Monitor

Common use

Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.

Verification and handling

Confirm the user-agent against server logs and use published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, or other trust signals when available.

Directory guidance marks the risk level as Safe and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.

Robots.txt handling: Unknown.

Evidence and Source

  • Public verified bot directory listing
  • Match `amazon-route-53-health-check-service` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Review bot_aliases for alternate names or product labels. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.
  • Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.
  • Medium

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