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title: "Amzn-User"
description: "Amzn-User accesses the web in response to Amazon user actions, such as questions asked to Alexa. Learn about its purpose, identification, and the limits of robots.txt."
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# Amzn-User

Reviewed on 2026-10-06.

## What it means

Amzn-User is Amazon’s agent that accesses the web to fulfill user actions, such as questions asked to Alexa that require up-to-date information. The documentation distinguishes this on-demand lookup from search [crawling](/en/resources/glossary/crawling) and states that Amzn-User does not collect content to train [generative AI](/en/resources/glossary/generative-ai) models. It identifies itself in the HTTP [User-Agent header](/en/resources/glossary/user-agent).

## Why it matters for marketing

For a content team, recognizing Amzn-User helps investigate whether public information can be accessed when someone asks a question. The decision involves access to the page at that moment, as well as whether it is up to date. Classifying every Amazon visit as [training data](/en/resources/glossary/training-data) collection could lead to a restriction that also interferes with the user-requested lookup.

## Example in practice

Imagine a museum that publishes the hours for an exhibition. Someone asks Alexa when it closes that day. The server log shows Amzn-User requesting the hours page but receiving HTTP 403. The team asks for the access rule for that page to be reviewed before investigating why the assistant could not find the hours.

## How to apply or verify

In the proposed investigation, the person responsible for infrastructure checks the URL, time, HTTP response, and rule applied by the server or CDN. They compare the source address with Amazon’s official, Amzn-User-specific list. The User-Agent text can be imitated. They also check whether the hours page provides up-to-date content without requiring additional interaction.

## Important distinctions

[Amzn-SearchBot](/en/resources/glossary/amzn-searchbot) serves search experiences; [Amazonbot](/en/resources/glossary/amazonbot) may collect material for training. The settings for these agents are independent. Because Amzn-User may act at a user’s request, Amazon says it may not follow all [robots.txt](/en/resources/glossary/robots-txt) directives. Allowing access does not guarantee a response or [citation](/en/resources/glossary/ai-citation), and a later restriction does not prove that previously collected material has been removed.

## Sources and references

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

## Continue a leitura

- [Amazonbot](</en/resources/glossary/amazonbot>)
- [Amzn-SearchBot](</en/resources/glossary/amzn-searchbot>)
- [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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