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Amazonbot

Amazon says its data may be used to train AI models. IP ranges are published as HTML, not JSON, so they are not machine-checked here yet.
Class
Search indexTraining
robots.txt
Says it honours robots.txt
Ignores Crawl-delay, and may cache robots.txt for up to 30 days.
Evidence
Confirmed from operator documentation
Source
Published User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36

Proving it is real

Amazon publishes no way to confirm this identity, so any request using this name has to be taken on trust.

Blocking it

robots.txt
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
Cloudflare custom rule expression
(http.user_agent contains "Amazonbot")
nginx
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Amazonbot") {
    return 403;
}

Matching a name only blocks bots that tell the truth about it. Before you do this, read what each decision costs.

Last reviewed Nov 2, 2026