companies

Amazon

Amazon is organized into North America, International, and Amazon Web Services segments and serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, content creators, advertisers, and employees.

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and opened as an online bookseller from his Bellevue, Washington home in July 1995. The company was incorporated in Washington in 1994, reincorporated in Delaware in 1996, and completed its initial public offering in May 1997. Amazon operates across North America, International, and Amazon Web Services, serving consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, content creators, advertisers, and employees. Its principal executive offices are in Seattle, Washington, and its second headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia. Amazon provides AI infrastructure and applications through AWS. Its offerings include Trainium and Inferentia chips, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Nova foundation models. Amazon reported that more than 1,000 generative-AI applications were being built across the company. As of December 31, 2025, Amazon employed approximately 1,576,000 full-time and part-time employees. It is a public company listed on Nasdaq under the symbol AMZN, led by President and Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy, with Jeff Bezos serving as Executive Chair.

Founded

1994

Headquarters

Seattle, United States

Sector

enterprise