amazon-QBusiness
amazon-QBusiness has 44 recorded blocks in October 2026, or 0.7%, and 37 files naming it. Its operator is unclear in the community reference.
Who runs amazon-QBusiness?
| Fact | amazon-QBusiness reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Purpose | “AI Assistants” |
| Does amazon-QBusiness obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for amazon-QBusiness | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“amazon-QBusiness is an Amazon Q Business web crawler that fetches and indexes web content for Amazon Q Business applications.”
The stated role here is an AI assistant. An owner may allow a search crawler to list a page or an assistant to retrieve it for someone, yet decline to supply the text for training.
How many sites block it?
The 44 files blocking the whole site account for 0.7% of 6,171 readable robots.txt files. We found its name in 37 User-agent lists, a 0.6% share. Without a whole-site Disallow: / block, 6,127 files remain.
Across Tranco’s top 1,000 ranks, there were 552 readable files. Among them, 5 files carry the name, or 0.9%, with 5 files blocking the whole site. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 0.9%. Farther down, 39 of 5,619 files record a block, 0.7% of that group.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| amazon-QBusiness, all ranks | 37 | 0.6% | 44 | 0.7% |
| amazon-QBusiness, top 1,000 | 5 | 0.9% | 5 | 0.9% |
| amazon-QBusiness, remaining ranks | 32 | 0.6% | 39 | 0.7% |
Blocking here counts whole-site bans recorded for it by name. A general ban for all crawlers is excluded. Of 44 blocks, 9 do not also appear in our count of files naming it. Looking just at named files gives 35 blocks and 2 without a whole-site block. For 6,134 readable files, we found no mention by name. We ignore capitalization and repeated names.
How to block or allow it
Put these in robots.txt at the site root. Per the robots.txt standard, a group naming amazon-QBusiness takes precedence over User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: amazon-QBusiness
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: amazon-QBusiness
Allow: /It's the 131st most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For amazon-QBusiness, our 19 October 2026 collection used Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. An 8-second wait or a file over 262,144 bytes ended a read. Missing, unreachable and oversized files do not contribute to these shares. Repeat readings are included, using scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
Can a file name it and still allow it?
The 37 files naming it include 2 files without a whole-site ban.
How do the shares compare by rank?
For naming rules, 0.9% of the leading sample mentions it, compared with 0.6% overall. Whole-site blocking is 0.9% at leading ranks and 0.7% across the full sample.
What other entry is close in the index?
The nearby ChatGPT Agent entry reports 36 files that name it and 0 whole-site blocks, 0.0% of readable files. Here, 37 files mention the name and 44 block access, or 0.7%.