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AmazonChecked 29 Oct 2026

Amzn-User

Opens a page when a customer asks Alexa something that needs up-to-date information.

Run by
Amazon
Used for
When a user asks
Follows robots.txt
Not always
Shut out by
4% of top websites

What blocking it changes

It may still open a page a customer asks for.

"...it may not follow all robots.txt directives."

Amazon, read 29 Oct 2026
Figure 1How many shut out Amzn-User while letting Googlebot in
Most visited websites4%29 of 669
S&P 500 companies0%2 of 410
From our two studies of 29 October 2026: the 669 most visited websites and the 410 S&P 500 companies whose robots.txt we could read. 12 of the websites and 0 of the companies name Amzn-User in the file. The website study, the S&P 500 study.

The lines to copy

To shut it out
User-agent: Amzn-User
Disallow: /
To let it in
User-agent: Amzn-User
Allow: /

A crawler follows only the lines under the User-agent line that names it, and the lines under User-agent: * only when no line names it. So lines for one crawler do not change the rules for the others.

Amazon publishes the addresses it crawls from, so a request can be checked against them: the list.

More from Amazon

  • Amazonbot Collects pages to improve Amazon's products and services, and may be used to train Amazon's AI models.
  • Amzn-SearchBot Reads pages for search in Amazon's products, such as Alexa. Amazon says it is not used for training.