Amazonbot
Amazon's web crawler powering Alexa, Amazon search, and AI services.
What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot is Amazon's web crawler used to collect data for Alexa, Amazon's product search, and various AI services. It crawls at significant rates (around 1,050 pages/hour on major sites), making it one of the higher-volume commercial crawlers.
The crawler supports robots.txt and identifies itself clearly. Amazon uses the crawled data across its AI ecosystem, including Alexa voice responses, Amazon product recommendations, and their growing suite of AI services through AWS.
Amazonbot's high crawl rate can have noticeable server impact. For e-commerce sites, allowing Amazonbot can have competitive implications since Amazon may use the data to inform product recommendations and pricing intelligence.
User-Agent Strings
These are the known user-agent patterns used by Amazonbot. Use them to identify this crawler in your server logs or configure robots.txt rules.
robots.txt example:
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /private/ Allow: /
How to Manage Amazonbot
Consider the competitive implications before allowing Amazonbot for e-commerce sites.
High crawl rate (~1050 pages/hr) — monitor server impact with Switch.
Use robots.txt crawl-delay if needed to throttle.
Block specific directories with sensitive pricing or inventory data.
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