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Amazon

● Active
E-Commerce · Seattle, WA, USA · Est. 1994
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$2.1T
Valuation
$700B
Revenue
1576k+
Employees
1994
Founded

Amazon is a global technology and e-commerce conglomerate that operates the world's largest online marketplace, AWS cloud platform, Prime subscription ecosystem, Alexa AI assistant, and Kindle, Ring, and Whole Foods brands. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, it has grown into one of the most valuable companies on earth spanning retail, cloud, logistics, advertising, and entertainment.

Recent Press
5 items
Press Release·2026-02-05
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter 2025 Results; Net Sales Increase 14% to $213.4 Billion
Amazon reported Q4 2025 net sales of $213.4 billion, up 14% year-over-year, driven by continued strength in AWS, advertising services, and Prime delivery, with AWS revenue accelerating to over 20% annual growth.
Press Release·2026-02-03
Amazon Sets New Prime Delivery Speed Record in 2025, With Over 13 Billion Items Arriving Same- or Next-Day Around the World
Amazon announced that it delivered more than 13 billion items globally on the same day or next day in 2025, achieving its fastest delivery speeds for the third consecutive year.
Press Release·2025-12-02
AWS Announces Trainium3 UltraServer and Nova AI Model Family at re:Invent 2025
At AWS re:Invent 2025, Amazon Web Services launched its Trainium3 UltraServer — more than four times faster and more energy efficient than the prior generation — alongside an expanded Amazon Nova AI model family and new frontier agentic AI capabilities.
Press Release·2025-10-30
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results; AWS Accelerates to 20% Year-Over-Year Growth
Amazon reported Q3 2025 net sales of $180.2 billion, up 13% year-over-year, with AWS reaching $33.0 billion in quarterly revenue, up 20%, as capital expenditures were increased to $125 billion for the full year.
Press Release·2025-07-31
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter 2025 Results; Net Sales Increase 13% to $167.7 Billion
Amazon reported Q2 2025 net sales of $167.7 billion, up 13% year-over-year, with AWS growing 17.5% to $30.9 billion and operating income reaching $19.2 billion, reflecting continued profitability improvements.
Company History
10 milestones
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in Bellevue, Washington, originally as an online bookstore called "Cadabra" before renaming it Amazon.com after the world's largest river.

Amazon Organization Structure & Team

Org Chart
1,576,000 employees · Click a leader to explore their team
944,000 across 12 departments
Chief Executive Officer
Andy Jassy
Brian Olsavsky — Departments
· 944000 people across 12 depts

Amazon Financials, Revenue & Market Share

Annual Revenue
$700B
+11% vs prior year
YoY Growth
+11%
From $470B to $700B
Revenue / Employee
$444K
Annual revenue per full-time employee
Revenue Growth
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
$470B
$514B
$575B
$638B
$700B
Market Share
Global Cloud Infrastructure
31%
share
Amazon
31%
Microsoft Azure
25%
Google Cloud
11%
Alibaba Cloud
4%
Others
29%
$6.2T
TAM
$1.4T
SAM
$638B
SOM
Revenue Streams
Online Stores38%
AWS17%
Third-Party Seller Services23%
Advertising Services9%
Subscription Services8%
Physical Stores & Other5%
Business Units
AWS17%
Cloud computing division — Amazon's most profitable segment with 30%+ operating margins, powering AI and enterprise workloads globally.
North America Retail61%
US and Canadian e-commerce, Prime, and advertising business including marketplace sellers and first-party product sales.
International22%
E-commerce and Prime operations across Europe, Japan, India, and emerging markets, with advertising and AWS growing fastest internationally.

Amazon Internal Tools & Processes

Internal Tools
12 departments
AWS Engineering55000 people · 3 roles
Standards & Certifications
10 standards
Compliance frameworks, security audits, and quality certifications this company maintains.
Security
ISO 27001
Certified
AWS maintains ISO 27001 certification across its global data center infrastructure, providing enterprise customers with independently verified information security management for workloads running on EC2, S3, and 200+ other AWS services.
Regulatory
FedRAMP High
Certified
AWS GovCloud (US) holds FedRAMP High authorization, enabling Amazon to host classified and sensitive US federal agency workloads including DoD and intelligence community systems on AWS infrastructure.
Security
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
AWS undergoes annual SOC 2 Type II audits across security, availability, and confidentiality trust service criteria, giving enterprise customers third-party assurance over AWS's operational controls for their cloud workloads.
Security
PCI DSS Level 1
Certified
AWS is a PCI DSS Level 1 certified service provider, enabling Amazon's retail payment processing and allowing AWS customers to build and run cardholder data environments on AWS infrastructure.
Privacy
GDPR
Compliant
Amazon and AWS maintain GDPR compliance for all EU customer data processed through Amazon.com, Prime, and AWS, offering Standard Contractual Clauses and data residency controls across AWS EU regions.
Privacy
HIPAA
Compliant
AWS supports HIPAA-eligible services with Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), enabling healthcare organizations to store, process, and transmit protected health information on AWS for applications like telehealth and clinical data analytics.
Environmental
ISO 14001
Certified
Amazon's global fulfillment and data center operations are certified under ISO 14001, supporting its Climate Pledge commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040 and run on 100% renewable energy by 2025.
Security
CSA STAR Level 2
Certified
AWS holds CSA STAR Level 2 certification, providing third-party-assessed assurance of cloud-specific security controls relevant to Amazon's hyperscale multi-tenant cloud architecture.
Regulatory
FIPS 140-2
Certified
AWS cryptographic modules used in GovCloud and standard regions are FIPS 140-2 validated, meeting US federal cryptographic standards required for Amazon's government and defense workloads.
Quality
ISO 9001
Certified
Amazon's fulfillment and logistics operations maintain ISO 9001 Quality Management certification, ensuring consistent quality standards across its 1,300+ fulfillment centers and last-mile delivery network.

Amazon Interview Preparation

Interview Prep
Role-specific interview questions and keywords. Select a department, then click any role to prepare.
AWS Engineering· 3 roles

Amazon Products & Competitors

Product Suite
8 products · select one to explore
E-Commerce
Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud

AWS is the world's leading cloud platform, offering 200+ services spanning compute (EC2), storage (S3), databases, AI/ML, serverless, and networking to millions of customers across startups, enterprises, and governments. It generated $107B in revenue in 2024, representing 17% of Amazon's total sales with over 30% operating margins.

Use Cases
Migrating on-premises Oracle databases to AWS RDS with zero-downtime using Database Migration ServiceBuilding serverless event-driven architectures using AWS Lambda, SQS, and EventBridgeTraining and deploying large language models on AWS SageMaker with managed GPU clusters
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Key Customers
NFLX
Netflix
NASA
NASA
AIR
Airbnb
Competitive Intelligence
VSMicrosoft Azure
THEM

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform offering over 200 services including virtual machines, databases, AI, analytics, and networking across a global network of data centers, competing with AWS and Google Cloud for enterprise cloud workloads.

EDGE

Largest global infrastructure footprint with 99 availability zones across 31 regions

VSGoogle Cloud
THEM

Google Cloud Platform is Google's public cloud computing service offering infrastructure, data analytics, AI, and application development services across global data centers, with particular strengths in data analytics, machine learning, and Kubernetes workloads.

EDGE

Broadest service catalog with 200+ services and deepest enterprise migration tooling

VSOracle Cloud
THEM

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is Oracle's public cloud platform offering compute, storage, networking, database, and application services with a particular strength in running Oracle Database workloads and enterprise ERP applications at scale.

EDGE

Strongest multi-cloud networking and hybrid connectivity with AWS Direct Connect