What is amazon-QBusiness?

amazon-QBusiness is an Amazon Q Business web crawler that fetches and indexes web content for Amazon Q Business applications. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when amazon-QBusiness visits your website.

Category

AI Assistant
Fetches website content in response to a user prompt, to include in an AI-generated answer

Overview

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Example User Agent amazon-QBusiness
Operated By Amazon
Source Official Website
Triggered By User action
Used for AI Model Training Not expected
Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility Yes
Expected To Follow Robots.txt Yes

Why Is amazon-QBusiness Visiting My Website?

A user asked Amazon's assistant a question your page could help answer. amazon-QBusiness retrieved the page to support its response, often with a citation linking back to your site.

Should I Block amazon-QBusiness?

Usually not. Blocking amazon-QBusiness can keep your pages out of AI-generated answers and eliminate potential citation traffic. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 9% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for amazon-QBusiness.

How Do I Block amazon-QBusiness Using Robots.txt?

Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block amazon-QBusiness from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI assistants at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.

User-agent: amazon-QBusiness # https://knownagents.com/agents/amazon-qbusiness
Disallow: /

Insights for amazon-QBusiness

As of November 9, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.

Robots.txt Compliance

Not enough activity

Country of Origin

United States
amazon-QBusiness traffic often comes from the United States

Robots.txt Blocked Percentage

9%
9% of top websites are blocking amazon-QBusiness
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Top Visited Website Categories

Sports
Business and Industrial
People and Society
Books and Literature
News

Robots.txt Blocking Trend

9% of top websites block amazon-QBusiness in their robots.txts.

amazon-QBusiness Traffic

0.0003% of all website traffic is coming from amazon-QBusiness.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From amazon-QBusiness?

amazon-QBusiness makes isolated, on-demand requests rather than crawling your site. Traffic follows user demand, ranging from sporadic fetches to steady visits for a popular assistant.

Does amazon-QBusiness Follow Robots.txt Rules?

amazon-QBusiness is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether amazon-QBusiness respects it.

Is amazon-QBusiness Used for AI Model Training?

Not ordinarily. amazon-QBusiness is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.

Does Blocking amazon-QBusiness Affect AI Search or Citations?

Yes, for requests handled by amazon-QBusiness. Blocking it can prevent the assistant from retrieving your pages for an answer or linking to them, but a separate crawler may control automatic AI search indexing.

Does amazon-QBusiness Access Private Content?

Not ordinarily. amazon-QBusiness fetches pages as an anonymous visitor without a stored login. Content protected by a paywall or login remains out of reach.

How Can I Verify a Request From amazon-QBusiness?

Agent Analytics tracks amazon-QBusiness visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "amazon-QBusiness". Look for a single-page request with no follow-up navigation. Because amazon-QBusiness does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.

How Is amazon-QBusiness Different From Other Amazon Agents?

Amazon operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.

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