Amazon.com, Inc. is an American e-commerce company, based in Seattle, Washington, founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Originally started as an online bookstore, it has evolved to become the largest Internet company in the world.

By the late 1990s, it surpassed the burst of the dot-com bubble, and by 2003 it demonstrated that its business model was profitable. Since then, the company has experienced constant growth.

Over time, Amazon's activities have expanded beyond e-commerce. Today, it is also a major global leader in the cloud services market. Amazon also owns a number of other ventures in the entertainment field, including Amazon Prime, Amazon Music, Amazon Video, and Amazon Kindle.

Amazon operates in over 200 countries and territories worldwide and has over 1,500,000 employees, of which 950,000 are in the United States alone.