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Amazonbot: IP ranges, verification & how to handle it

Last verified: 2026-07-16 · maintained by Unsourced

Amazonbot crawls to support Amazon products and services including Alexa answers. It respects robots.txt and publishes a verifiable reverse-DNS footprint.

What Amazonbot does, and how it differs

Amazonbot crawls to keep Amazon's services — most visibly Alexa's spoken answers — current with the web. It publishes a verifiable reverse-DNS footprint, so a quick forward-confirmed lookup tells the real bot apart from anything spoofing its name. Its payoff is indirect: what it reads can surface in Alexa responses, where there is no clickable link, so the upside is mention and reach rather than referral clicks.

How to verify Amazonbot

Amazon publishes no machine-readable IP-range feed for Amazonbot, so the dependable check is reverse DNS. A genuine request's IP reverse-resolves to amazonbot.amazon, crawl.amazonbot.amazon, and that hostname forward-resolves back to the same IP — the round trip is what confirms it. A Amazonbot user-agent from an address that won't forward-confirm is an impostor.

Should you allow or block Amazonbot?

Recommended: keep. Amazonbot feeds Alexa and Amazon's services, where answers are spoken with no clickable link — so allowing it buys reach and mention rather than traffic, and blocking it mainly costs you presence in Alexa responses.

If you do choose to act in robots.txt (which crawlers honour but don't enforce):

# Amazonbot: recommended to ALLOW — blocking can cost you AI visibility
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow:

Official sources

Amazon crawler info: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot ↗

Common questions about Amazonbot

Does Amazonbot send me any traffic?

No clicks — Amazonbot feeds Alexa and Amazon's services, where answers are spoken with no link back. The upside is reach and mention, not referral visits.

How do I verify Amazonbot?

By reverse DNS — Amazon doesn't publish IP ranges for it, but a genuine request resolves to amazonbot.amazon or crawl.amazonbot.amazon and forward-confirms back.

Should I block Amazonbot?

Only if Alexa-style reach has no value to you. It sends no clicks, but allowing it keeps you present in Alexa's spoken answers; blocking it mainly forfeits that presence.

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