Overview
Amazonbot is Amazon’s documented web crawler for improving Amazon products and services.
Amazon states that data collected by Amazonbot may also be used to train Amazon AI models. Amazon publishes source IP information and documents Amazonbot as the robots.txt identity.
Use the User-Agent together with Amazon’s current published source information when authenticating traffic.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Amazonbot - Aliases
- Amazon AI crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 - Robots Token
- Amazonbot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify Amazonbot by matching `Amazonbot` to Amazon evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- AI
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Product improvement and AI training
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Improving Amazon products and services; crawled data may also be used to train Amazon AI models.
- Detection Notes
- Amazonbot traffic is primarily detected by the `Amazonbot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Amazon AI crawler`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `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`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Amazon infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Amazonbot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: Amazonbot 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.