Safe AI & LLM Bots

AWS Bedrock Bot

Operated by Amazon

Quick Facts

User-Agent:
bedrockbot
Category:
AI & LLM Bots
Operator:
Amazon
Safety:
Safe
Blocking Impact:
Low - No SEO ranking impact
SEO Impact Score:
2/10
Official docs:
www.amazon.com

What is AWS Bedrock Bot?

AWS Bedrock Bot is an AI data-collection crawler operated by Amazon. It gathers public web content to build or refine training datasets for large language models. Like other AI training crawlers, AWS Bedrock Bot does not influence your search-engine rankings, so you can block it via robots.txt without any SEO penalty if you wish to opt out of AI training.

AWS Bedrock Bot is an AI data-collection crawler operated by Amazon. It gathers public web content to build or refine training datasets for large language models. Like other AI training crawlers, AWS Bedrock Bot does not influence your search-engine rankings, so you can block it via robots.txt without any SEO penalty if you wish to opt out of AI training. AWS Bedrock Bot uses the user-agent token bedrockbot. You can control it via robots.txt, meta tags (noai), or the emerging llms.txt standard. Robots.txt is voluntary; for hard enforcement, combine it with server-level IP blocking.

What happens if you block AWS Bedrock Bot?

✅ **No SEO Impact** - Blocking AWS Bedrock Bot does not affect your rankings in Google, Bing, or any other search engine. AWS Bedrock Bot is an AI crawler, not a traditional search indexer. You can freely block it via User-agent / Disallow: / without any SEO penalty.
Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value.

How to block AWS Bedrock Bot with robots.txt

<code>User-agent: bedrockbot</code> - Matching is case-insensitive. Robots.txt is fetched from the root of each subdomain separately.

Block completely (robots.txt)
User-agent: bedrockbot Disallow: /
Allow all (robots.txt)
User-agent: bedrockbot Allow: /
Block private only (robots.txt)
User-agent: bedrockbot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /admin/ Allow: /
Nginx server block
# Nginx: Hard-block AWS Bedrock Bot if ($http_user_agent ~* "bedrockbot") { return 403 "Bot blocked"; }
Apache .htaccess
# Apache: Hard-block AWS Bedrock Bot SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "bedrockbot" bad_bot Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=bad_bot
Meta robots tag
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
X-Robots-Tag header
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow

Is AWS Bedrock Bot safe to allow?

Yes, AWS Bedrock Bot is a **safe and legitimate** crawler operated by Amazon. It follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309) and can be controlled with standard robots.txt rules.
Verify by reverse-DNS lookup: legitimate AWS Bedrock Bot requests resolve to Amazon's domain.

What does AWS Bedrock Bot do?

Understanding AWS Bedrock Bot's purpose helps you decide whether to allow or block it.

  • Collects public web content to train large language models
  • Builds and refreshes AI training datasets
  • Harvests text, code, and structured data for model improvement
  • Does NOT affect search-engine rankings
  • Can be blocked to opt out of AI training without SEO loss

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the official user-agent string for AWS Bedrock Bot?
The official user-agent string for AWS Bedrock Bot is: bedrockbot. Use this exact string in robots.txt, Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare firewall rules to target this bot. Matching in robots.txt is case-insensitive. Verify a request genuinely comes from AWS Bedrock Bot by performing a reverse-DNS lookup on the source IP.
Is AWS Bedrock Bot safe?
Yes, AWS Bedrock Bot is a **safe and legitimate** crawler operated by Amazon. It follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309) and can be controlled with standard robots.txt rules.
Will blocking AWS Bedrock Bot hurt my SEO?
✅ **No SEO Impact** - Blocking AWS Bedrock Bot does not affect your rankings in Google, Bing, or any other search engine. AWS Bedrock Bot is an AI crawler, not a traditional search indexer. You can freely block it via User-agent / Disallow: / without any SEO penalty.
How do I block AWS Bedrock Bot in robots.txt?
Add the following lines to your /robots.txt file: 
User-agent: bedrockbot
Disallow: /
This instructs AWS Bedrock Bot not to crawl any path on your site. To block only specific sections, replace / with the path (e.g., Disallow: /blog/).
Does AWS Bedrock Bot respect robots.txt?
AWS Bedrock Bot is operated by Amazon and is expected to fetch and parse /robots.txt before crawling, following RFC 9309. For hard enforcement, combine robots.txt with server-level IP or user-agent blocking.
How do I verify if AWS Bedrock Bot is crawling my site?
Search your web server access logs for the string bedrockbot (case-insensitive: grep -i "bedrockbot" /var/log/nginx/access.log). Filter by user-agent in your log analytics tool (GoAccess, AWStats, etc.).

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