Overview
Amzn-User is an AI crawler from Amazon used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Amzn-User; related patterns include Amazon user fetcher; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-User/0.1) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36.
Amzn-User is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
Amzn-User has context-dependent robots.txt behavior because some requests may be user-triggered, product-triggered, or handled differently by the operator.
Amzn-User should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Amzn-User - Aliases
- Amazon user fetcher
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-User/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 - Robots Token
- Amzn-User
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify Amzn-User by matching `Amzn-User` to Amazon evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- AI
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Amazon
- Purpose
- User requested fetching
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Fetching current web information on behalf of Amazon users, such as for Alexa queries; not used for generative AI model training.
- Detection Notes
- Amzn-User traffic is primarily detected by the `Amzn-User` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Amazon user fetcher`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-User/0.1) 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
- Depends
- Spoofing Risk
- Amzn-User 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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# This rule may not apply to user-triggered or special-purpose requests. User-agent: Amzn-User 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.