Amazon operates the Prime Video streaming service and AWS, its cloud business.
Prime Video is part of Amazon Prime’s broader subscription offering, while Amazon Web Services provides computing, storage, databases, and other infrastructure services to organizations worldwide. AWS launched in the mid-2000s and became one of Amazon’s most important profit-generating divisions.
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookstore. It expanded into a broad marketplace, logistics, devices, digital media, advertising, and cloud computing. That diversification helped transform Amazon from a retailer into a technology and services company.
Prime Video is not the same business as Netflix, which is primarily a subscription streaming company. AWS is also distinct from consumer-facing Amazon.com: it sells technical infrastructure and software services to businesses, governments, and developers.