Question

Should I block Amazonbot?

Updated June 12, 2026

Amazonbot crawls the web for Alexa answers and Amazon's AI services and honors robots.txt. Block it if you do not want your content used by Amazon AI/Alexa or it adds crawl load; keep it allowed if you want to appear in Alexa-style answers.

When blocking makes sense

• You do not target Alexa/Amazon answer surfaces.
• You want to limit AI training/answer use of your content.
• Crawl volume is costing you origin resources.

Block it

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

Confirm it is honored

grep -i 'Amazonbot' /var/log/your-access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

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