Amazon operates the Amazon.com online marketplace and the AWS cloud-computing business.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and the company began as an online bookstore. It expanded into many categories of consumer goods, logistics, digital media, devices, advertising, and subscription services. Amazon’s marketplace includes products sold directly by Amazon and products offered by third-party sellers.
Amazon Web Services, usually called AWS, provides on-demand computing, storage, databases, and other internet infrastructure. AWS became a major business distinct from online retail and helped establish cloud computing as a central technology industry. Amazon is sometimes confused with Amazon Web Services because AWS has its own products and branding, but AWS is a division of Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon’s market capitalization covers the full corporation.