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Amazon
Founded in 1994
CEO: Andy Jassy
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Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, Amazon started as an online marketplace for books but today is a global leader in e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and AI.
Its e-commerce platform allows consumers and businesses to buy and sell a vast range of products, including household electronics, books, clothing, white goods, and more.
As well as selling products directly, third parties can list and sell their items on the platform and can use Amazon services, such as fulfilment by Amazon( FBA).
With FBA, sellers send their products to Amazon’ s pick-pack-and-ship fulfilment centres. FBA also manages logistics, with FBA products eligible for Amazon’ s various shipping options, such as Amazon Prime’ s free next-day shipping.
Business Prime provides additional benefits, such as free two-day shipping on eligible items and exclusive deals. It is designed to meet the needs of business customers and their procurement workflows.
Amazon has built a vast logistics infrastructure to support its marketplaces, ensuring fast and efficient product delivery from its array of fulfilment centres worldwide.
Amazon Logistics is built around last-mile delivery manned by a network of delivery drivers, including Amazon Flex drivers and independent contractors.
It uses advanced tracking systems to provide real-time package tracking and delivery updates to customers, and has introduced innovative delivery methods such as Amazon Prime Air, an unmanned drone delivery system.
Beyond retail, Amazon has diversified into B2B services. Amazon Web Services( AWS) is its cloud computing platform and offers computing capacity, storage, database management and AI.
AWS runs a global network of data centres, which underpin cloud services, including Elastic Compute Cloud for virtual servers; Simple Storage Service for object storage; Relational Database Service for managed databases; Lambda for serverless computing; Sagemaker for machine learning; Redshift for data warehousing.
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