Amazon

Amazon sells consumer goods and provides cloud computing and AI services through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Its Amazon Bedrock service gives businesses access to managed foundation models from multiple providers, with governance and security controls; Bedrock AgentCore supplies infrastructure for deploying and operating agents. For consumers, Alexa for Shopping offers product comparisons, personalized recommendations, price history and automated purchasing features.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, initially as an online bookstore. Andrew R. Jassy, previously AWS CEO, has led Amazon as president and CEO since 2021. Its engineering contributions include the 2007 Dynamo paper, which described a highly available key-value storage system used by core Amazon services. Dynamo uses object versioning and application-assisted conflict resolution, accepting weaker consistency under certain failures to maintain availability—a concrete example of designing distributed systems around operational tradeoffs.

Amazon’s business infrastructure extends beyond computing: Amazon Supply Chain Services lets other businesses move, store and deliver raw materials and finished products using the supply chain supporting Amazon itself. Early customers include Procter & Gamble and 3M. In July 2026, the company reported hundreds of thousands of Amazon Bedrock customers, illustrating the reach of its managed model platform alongside its retail and logistics operations.