Amazon bots
8 bots in the directory · Reviewed July 2026
Amazon's Amazonbot crawls the web to improve Amazon services, most visibly Alexa's question answering. Amazon documents its user agent and supported robots.txt directives.
Amazonbot
Amazon's web crawler, used to improve services including Alexa's question answering.
Amazon Bedrock
Fetches pages added as data sources to Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases.
Amazon Kendra
Indexes content for Amazon Kendra enterprise search.
Amazon Q
Crawls content for the Amazon Q Business generative assistant.
AmazonProductDiscovery
Collects public product details to improve product info on Amazon.
Amazon AdBot
Determines site content for Amazon advertising relevance.
Amazon Route 53 Health Check
AWS Route 53 endpoint health-check service.
Amazon Seller Listing
Lets sellers provide a URL to create Amazon product pages.
Control every Amazon bot at once
robots.txt lets one rule group target multiple user-agents. These snippets cover all 8 Amazon tokens in this directory. For finer control, set rules per bot on each bot's page.
Allow all Amazon bots
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: amazon-kendra
User-agent: amazon-QBusiness
User-agent: AmazonProductDiscovery
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
User-agent: Amazon-Route53-Health-Check-Service
User-agent: AmazonSellerInitiatedListing
Allow: /Block all Amazon bots
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: amazon-kendra
User-agent: amazon-QBusiness
User-agent: AmazonProductDiscovery
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
User-agent: Amazon-Route53-Health-Check-Service
User-agent: AmazonSellerInitiatedListing
Disallow: /Careful: this group includes a search engine crawler. Blocking it removes you from traditional search rankings and the AI answers built on that index, not just AI features.