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Amazon: From Online Bookstore to Global Tech Giant Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, Amazon initially operated as an online bookstore. Its rapid expansion led to its current status as a multinational technology behemoth, encompassing e-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital streaming, and artificial ...

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Company type Public
Industry Conglomerate
Founded 1995
Founders Jeff Bezos
Headquarters Seattle, Washington and Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
Area served Worldwide
Key people Jeff Bezos (Executive Chairman), Andy Jassy (President and CEO)
Services Amazon.com, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Appstore, Amazon Clinic, Amazon Luna, Amazon Music, Amazon Pay, Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon Robotics, Amazon Web Services, MGM+, One Medical, Ring, Twitch
Revenue US$637.9 billion (2024)
Net income US$59.25 billion (2024)
Number of employees 1,556,000 (2024)
Parent Amazon Inc.
Subsidiaries A9.com, AbeBooks, Alexa Internet, Amazon.com, Amazon Air, Amazon Books, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Games, Amazon Lab126, Amazon Logistics, Amazon Pharmacy, Amazon Publishing, Amazon Robotics, Amazon MGM Studios, AWS, Audible, Blink, Body Labs, Book Depository, Brilliance Audio, ComiXology, Eero LLC, Goodreads, Graphiq, IMDb, Kuiper Systems, PillPack, Ring, Souq.com, Twitch Interactive, Whole Foods Market, Woot, Zappos, Zoox
Website www.amazon.com

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Last Updated : 28/03/25, 02:55 AM

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Amazon lays off 14,000 corporate employees as ‘AI’ continues to take whitecollar jobs

October 29, 2025 10:04 am

The layoffs are said to be the largest corporate job cuts in Amazon’s history, with earlier reports stating that the total number of layoffs could reach as high as 30,000.

Employees brace for impact as Amazon prepares to cut 30,000 jobs.

Amazon to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in largest-ever layoffs: Here’s what to know

October 30, 2025 9:12 am

Amazon is preparing to lay off 30,000 employees in what could be the biggest corporate downsizing in its history. The move reflects a broader industry trend of AI-driven restructuring and cost-cutting.

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

October 28, 2025 12:48 am

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon's 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company's roughly 350,000 corporate employees.

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iPhone 16 under Rs 50,000, iPhone 15 under Rs 45,000: How to get the best deal on Amazon

October 25, 2025 1:31 pm

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Amazon develops AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers

October 23, 2025 10:04 am

Amazon says the smart glasses will allow delivery drivers to scan packages, follow turn-by-turn walking directions, and capture proof of delivery.

An Amazon’s Sparrow robotic arm at the Amazon facility in Shreveport, La., Oct. 10, 2025. Amazon is building robots that do everything from moving individual shirts and bottles of soap to neatly stacking packages for the shipping dock. Amazon executives hope these robots will help the company avoid hiring hundreds of thousands of employees in the coming years. (Emily Kask/The New York Times)

Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with robots

October 23, 2025 9:05 am

At facilities designed for superfast deliveries, Amazon is trying to create warehouses that employ few humans at all. And documents show that Amazon’s robotics team has an ultimate goal to automate 75% of its operations.

AWS competes with the cloud services offered by Google and Microsoft.

What the AWS outage reveals about the internet’s backbone

October 23, 2025 4:30 pm

AWS outage October 2025: The cloud computing market is said to have a brittle foundation because it is dominated by just a few hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

AWS down: Check full list of websites and apps affected by Amazon Cloud outage on October 20

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AWS Outage Today: A major outage in Amazon’s cloud services unit - AWS, has disrupted several popular apps including Fortnite and Snapchat, causing connectivity issues for companies worldwide.

Snapchat, Duolingo, Zoom among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage

October 20, 2025 4:56 pm

Amazon Web Service Down: Engineers are "immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause", AWS said in an update.

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Amazon’s Great Indian Festival brings festive discounts on gold, appliances, and two-wheelers

October 15, 2025 1:32 pm

Amazon India’s Great Indian Festival 2025 is offering festive discounts on everything from gold and silver coins to two-wheelers, smartphones, and home appliances.