What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot is a search crawler run by Amazon. Here is what Amazon says it is for, and how to allow or block it.
What it is for
What Amazon says: General. Amazon says it uses it to improve its products and services, which can include its AI.
Search crawlers build an index that an AI assistant or search product uses to find and link to pages when it answers questions. Blocking one can mean that product cannot show or link to your pages.
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How to block Amazonbot
Add this group to the robots.txt file at the root of your site:
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /How to allow Amazonbot
If nothing in your robots.txt names Amazonbot and your User-agent: * group does not say Disallow: /, it is already allowed. If an older rule blocks it, remove that group, or say so explicitly:
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /robots.txt is a request, not a lock, and a "block AI bots" setting at your host or CDN can turn Amazonbot away whatever robots.txt says. More on writing the rules
Operators publish these names and change them. This page reflects what Amazon has said publicly; check Amazon's own documentation before you rely on it. See the full AI crawler list.