Amazonbot: Amazon's Training Crawler
What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot crawls content to improve Amazon products and services. Amazon states the data may be used to train Amazon AI models, which is why it is classified as a training crawler rather than a live answer fetcher. Amazonbot attaches no citation to anything it uses, so blocking it removes no AI answer placement a visitor could click.
Key facts
- Amazonbot is operated by Amazon, and its purpose is training: collects content that may be used to train future models.
- The user agent for Amazonbot is documented by Amazon and contains the token Amazonbot.
- The robots.txt token for Amazonbot is Amazonbot, and Amazon documents that Amazonbot respects that rule.
- Amazonbot never sends a visitor to your site, and Amazonbot attaches no citation when it uses your content.
Specification
| Operator | Amazon |
|---|---|
| Purpose | TrainingCollects content that may be used to train future models. Blocking it removes your content from future training runs. It does not affect whether a model can find and cite you today. |
| Agent kind | CrawlerAutonomous crawler. Appears in your logs under its own user-agent. |
| User agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 |
| robots.txt token | Amazonbot |
| robots.txt compliance | Documented: respects robots.txt |
| Verification | Published IP range filehttps://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/ |
| Sends referral traffic | No |
| Attaches a citation | No |
| Status | Active |
| Legacy Kymo category | training |
| Source | Operator documentationhttps://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot |
| Verified on |
What this looks like in your logs
203.0.113.42 - - [04/Aug/2026:09:14:07 +0000] "GET /pricing HTTP/1.1" 200 18432 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36"
The part that identifies the request is the token Amazonbot, inside the quoted user-agent field at the end of the line. Everything before it is the ordinary shape of a Common Log Format entry, and the address shown is a documentation address rather than one Amazon uses.
What Amazonbot does not do
Amazonbot does not send you a visitor, and it attaches no citation, so a read by it can never turn into a click.
Amazonbot does not decide whether Amazon can find you today, because a training run happens long before any question is asked.
Amazon publishes no crawl frequency for Amazonbot, so any schedule you read elsewhere is somebody's estimate rather than a documented figure.
How Kymo classifies it
Kymo files Amazonbot under Amazon as training, classified from the HTTP request on the server rather than from anything running in a browser.
A hit from Amazonbot appears on the Crawlers dashboard and is deliberately left out of the AI Visibility numbers. A training run sends nobody, so a read by it has no click to compare against.
Seen on our own sites
| Last seen | 15 Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Days active, last 30 days | 31 |
| Requests, last 30 days | 58,294 |
Counted by Kymo on kymo.in and remotestack.in, the two sites we run, up to 15 Sep 2026. Two sites is a small sample. Treat these numbers as proof the bot is active now.
Allow it or block it
Blocking Amazonbot removes your content from Amazon AI model training and from the data behind Amazon product answers. Amazon documents that it honours the Robots Exclusion Protocol and that a robots.txt change takes roughly 24 hours to take effect. Kymo previously classified this agent as a live answer fetch, which was wrong; stored rows were corrected in migration23.
| Allow it if | Block it if |
|---|---|
| You want your content represented in future Amazon models, and you accept that a training run sends no visitor and no link back. | You sell access to your content, or you object to it being used as training data without payment or credit. |
robots.txt directives
Both blocks below address Amazonbot only. Rules for one token never apply to another, even from the same operator.
Allow Amazonbot
User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /
Block Amazonbot
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
Questions
How do I know a request claiming to be Amazonbot is genuine?
Amazon publishes the IP ranges Amazonbot uses at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/. Check the requesting address against that file. A user-agent string alone proves nothing, because anyone can send one.
Does blocking Amazonbot affect my Google ranking?
No. A Google ranking is decided by Googlebot, which is a separate crawler. Amazonbot is Amazon's training crawler, so blocking it changes what Amazon can do with your content and changes nothing in Google search results.
Will I see Amazonbot in Google Analytics?
No. Google Analytics runs a JavaScript tag in a visitor's browser, and Amazonbot reads your HTML and leaves without running any script. Server-side logging is the only way to record it.
Does Amazonbot send traffic back to my site?
No. Amazonbot takes content and sends nothing back. A hit appears in your logs as a request with no visitor behind it.
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