Why is Amazon crawling my website? Is this hurting us?

[Ty1986]

Hi mozzers,

I  discovered that Amazon is crawling our site and exploring thousands of profile pages. In a single day it crawled 75k profile pages.

1. Is this related to AWS?
2. Is this something we should worry about or not?  If so what could be a solution to counter this?
3. Could this affect our Google Analytics organic traffic?

[KevinBudzynski]

1. Is this related to AWS? Yes, most likely a customer on AWS scraping your site.
2. Is this something we should worry about or not?  If so what could be a solution to counter this? Monitor it. If the crawling get's ridiculous, you could have site performance issues. Could deny IP addresse(s) in .htacces or try via Robot.txt file.
3. Could this affect our Google Analytics organic traffic? If your site performance suffers, could affect organic position and decrease traffic.

Good luck!

[mian183]

this is not about moz

[oxidants]

My website https://www.avenuessouthresidences.com also has traffic coming from Amazon bots. I wonder if it's my competitors doing something funny or it's Amazon itself doing it.