Amazon

Amazonbot

Amazon's official web crawler used to improve services like Alexa and train AWS Bedrock models.

Purpose: Alexa accuracy and LLM training (Bedrock)

Quick Facts

Company
Amazon
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Last Updated
2025-05
Official Documentation

📊 Popularity & Traffic

#4Ranking among AI crawlers

Activity grew rapidly in late 2023, often ranking behind only Google and OpenAI in specific cloud segments.

🤖 User Agent Strings

Use these patterns to identify Amazonbot in your server logs or configure your robots.txt file.

Amazonbot

Respects robots.txt

Primary Amazon crawler for AI/Search

Amazonbot/0.1

Amzn-SearchBot

Respects robots.txt

Search indexing for Alexa experiences

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36

Amzn-User

Respects robots.txt

Real-time retrieval for Alexa user queries

Amzn-User/0.1

🌐 IP Ranges

Source: Official Amazon JSON files (updated regularly)
Official source file

Identified IP Ranges14 Ranges

100.24.190.202/32
Subnet with 1 addresses
100.25.127.167/32
Subnet with 1 addresses
100.25.153.201/32
Subnet with 1 addresses
100.25.17.231/32
Subnet with 1 addresses
100.25.30.152/32
Subnet with 1 addresses
100.26.122.24/32
Subnet with 1 addresses

How to read CIDR notation:

The /28 suffix indicates a block of 16 IP addresses. For example,.112/28 covers all addresses from .112 up to .127. Adding these to your firewall will block the entire range used by Amazonbot.

📝 Robots.txt Configuration

Add the following to your robots.txt file to block Amazonbot:

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

💡 Important Notes

  • Honors robots.txt Exclusion Protocol and respects meta tags like noindex/noarchive
  • Does not support crawl-delay directive according to official documentation
  • IP addresses published at separate URLs: /ip-addresses (Amazonbot), /searchbot-ip-addresses (Amzn-SearchBot), /live-ip-addresses (Amzn-User)
  • Contact [email protected] for specific crawling concerns

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