Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for online retail, cloud computing through Amazon Web Services, digital advertising, consumer devices, and logistics. Its stated mission is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company and to help customers, businesses, and public institutions build and operate more efficiently.
Amazon typically engages on policies affecting e-commerce, logistics, labor and workplace rules, technology and cloud computing, data privacy and cybersecurity, competition and antitrust, taxation, trade, transportation, sustainability, and public-sector procurement.
Primarily funded through revenue from retail, cloud services, advertising, subscriptions, and related commercial operations.
Amazon Web Services, Amazon Business, Whole Foods Market, Ring, Audible, Twitch, and the Alexa Fund; founder Jeff Bezos is the company’s most high-profile individual affiliate.
private company
