Which company is the parent of the e-commerce platform Amazon and the cloud service AWS?

Amazon.com, Inc. is the parent company of the Amazon e-commerce platform and Amazon Web Services.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore, and the company began operating as an internet bookseller in 1995. It expanded into a broad marketplace selling many categories of goods, while also developing logistics, digital media, devices, advertising, and cloud computing.

Amazon Web Services became a major contributor to the company’s growth and is one reason Amazon is frequently compared with the world’s largest technology companies by market capitalization. A common mistake is to treat AWS as a separate publicly traded company. AWS is a business segment of Amazon.com, Inc., not an independent listed corporation.