Amazonbot: robots token, verification and how to allow or disallow it
Amazonbot is an AI crawler operated by Amazon. Its robots.txt token is Amazonbot, and the vendor documentation we fetched on 2026-09-06 is the source for every statement on this page.
| Robots token | Amazonbot |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Amazon |
| Purpose | search index, user-initiated fetch |
| Documented verification | reverse DNS |
| Vendor documentation last verified | 2026-09-06 |
| Share of read domains disallowing it for / | 16.4% of 128 |
| Last verified |
Identity
| Robots token | Amazonbot |
|---|---|
| Matched as | amazonbot |
| Vendor | Amazon |
| Purpose | search index, user-initiated fetch |
| Documentation | https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot |
| Documented verification | reverse DNS: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/live-ip-addresses/ (.crawl.amazonbot.amazon) |
Vendor text fetched on 2026-09-06: 'Automated crawling from these listed user agents respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol, honoring the user-agent and the allow/disallow directives.' The reverse DNS suffix comes from app/botverify.py (existing fleet data), not from this page. The live IP address URL is referenced by the vendor page but was not fetched in this session.
Allow or disallow it
User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
A robots.txt rule is a request that a well behaved crawler honours. It is not an access control, and this page does not tell anyone what to choose.
Questions
Does Amazonbot obey robots.txt?
The vendor documentation at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot states that Amazonbot respects robots.txt. We fetched that page and it answered our checker on 2026-09-06. This records what the vendor documents, not what any individual request did.
How do I allow Amazonbot in robots.txt?
Add this group to the robots.txt at the root of the host: User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /. The token is matched case insensitively as a substring of the user agent by RFC 9309, and the longest matching rule wins.
How do I disallow Amazonbot in robots.txt?
Add this group to the robots.txt at the root of the host: User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /. A robots.txt rule is a request that a well behaved crawler honours; it is not an access control.
How do I verify a request really came from Amazonbot?
The vendor documents reverse DNS verification: look up the address of the request, check the name ends in .crawl.amazonbot.amazon, then look that name up again and confirm it resolves back to the same address.
What we measure
Of the 128 seeded domains whose robots.txt we have read, 21 disallow Amazonbot for / and 107 allow it, which is 16.4% disallowed, week 2026-W37. Counts only: no domain is named.
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Sources
| Source | Type | HTTP | Verified | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot | vendor | 200 | 2026-09-06 | 21 occurrences of Amazonbot; robots.txt discussed 11 times |
| https://darkvisitors.com/agents/amazonbot | aggregator | 200 | 2026-09-06 | corroboration only; volatile source: identical byte count but a different content hash on every fetch (verified twice on 2026-09-06), so the refresher compares byte counts for it, not hashes |
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