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title: "Amazonbot"
description: "Amazonbot collects content to improve Amazon products and services, with possible use in training. Learn the rules and how it differs from the search agent."
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# Amazonbot

Reviewed on 2026-10-06.

## What it means

Amazonbot is Amazon’s [crawler](/en/resources/glossary/crawler), used to improve its products and services and provide customers with more accurate information. The documentation states that data may be used to train the company’s AI models. This possibility is part of its purpose, but a single request does not reveal whether a specific page was included in any training set.

## Why it matters for marketing

For marketing and content teams, recognizing Amazonbot helps clarify which materials may be collected and for which stated uses. Decisions should distinguish training from participation in search experiences. Amazon publishes separate controls for Amazonbot, [Amzn-SearchBot](/en/resources/glossary/amzn-searchbot) and [Amzn-User](/en/resources/glossary/amzn-user); treating all three as a single access type may result in a different restriction than intended.

## Practical example

In a hypothetical scenario, a cooking website allows its bread recipe to be crawled but wants to restrict its use in training by Amazon. A review finds the recipe has no [noarchive](/en/resources/glossary/noarchive) directive. Since the documentation says this directive controls training, the team requests that it be added to that page and records the specific purpose of the change.

## How to apply or verify

Check the [HTML](/en/resources/glossary/html-the-web-s-markup-language) served at the recipe URL, the host’s [robots.txt](/en/resources/glossary/robots-txt) file, and the logged requests. Amazon states that it respects Allow/Disallow directives during automated [crawling](/en/resources/glossary/crawling). The technical team should verify the source against the published list for Amazonbot; the User-Agent does not authenticate the source. To check the change, inspect the noarchive directive actually served; do not assume that filling in a CMS field changed the public response.

## Important distinctions

Amazon’s stated meaning of noarchive for training does not automatically apply to other providers. [Noindex](/en/resources/glossary/noindex) concerns [indexing](/en/resources/glossary/indexing) and is not equivalent to this control. According to the company, configuration changes may take about 24 hours to appear in its systems. Allowing Amazonbot does not guarantee discovery in Alexa, a [citation](/en/resources/glossary/ai-citation), or traffic. Restricting it later does not prove that content already used has been removed.

## Sources and references

- [About Amazonbot](<https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot>) — Amazon

## Continue a leitura

- [Amzn-SearchBot](</en/resources/glossary/amzn-searchbot>)
- [noarchive](</en/resources/glossary/noarchive>)
- [robots.txt](</en/resources/glossary/robots-txt>)

## About the author

[Vinicius Pacheco](</en/team/vinicius-pacheco>)

Responsible for Tropk’s technical content, focusing on crawling, indexing, structured data, and agent access to content.

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