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Amazon Kendra

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Operated by Amazon ai crawler

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate intelligent search service that enables your users to search unstructured data using natural language. It returns specific answers to questions, giving users an experience that's close to interacting with a human expert. It is highly scalable and capable of meeting performance demands, tightly integrated with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Lex, and offers enterprise-grade security.

What it does

amazon-kendra works like Googlebot with a less predictable calendar. Expect recurring crawls across your whole site, at a frequency that tracks how often your content changes and how much authority your site carries. Visits can cluster in bursts when its index refreshes.

How to identify it

User-agent contains any of:

  • amazon-kendra-
  • amazon-kendra

robots.txt

Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Amazon Kendra:

Allow full access

User-agent: amazon-kendra
Allow: /

Block entirely

User-agent: amazon-kendra
Disallow: /

Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless — see how →

See Amazon Kendra on your own site

Botscope shows every bot and AI agent hitting your site — and lets you allow, challenge, or block each one. Observe first, enforce when you're ready.

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