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.

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.