Amazon launched the Kindle in 2007 and operates Amazon Web Services.
The original Kindle went on sale in November 2007, giving readers a dedicated device for downloading and reading digital books. It became one of Amazon’s best-known hardware products and helped expand the company beyond physical retail.
Amazon Web Services, commonly called AWS, began offering services in the mid-2000s and became a major cloud-computing business. It provides computing power, storage, databases, and other infrastructure to companies, governments, and developers.
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookstore. It later expanded into broad e-commerce, logistics, entertainment, devices, and cloud services. Kindle is a product line, while AWS is a business division; neither is a separate publicly traded company.