- Headquarters
- Seattle, Washington, United States · North America
- Value chain
- Operations & infrastructure(Systems & services)
- What that means
- Runs the technology as a service: cloud and compute, networks, launch, satellite operators, plants and utilities.
- Founded
- 1994
- Staff
- 1,556,000 (2024)
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- Nasdaq:AMZN on Google Finance
- Website
- aboutamazon.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in Applied AI & Advanced Analytics
Seattle, Washington, United StatesIn 8 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- Applied AI & Advanced AnalyticsVery high
Artificial Intelligence · Software & services · listed #3 of 50
AWS offers SageMaker, Bedrock and Redshift, the most widely used cloud platform for building and running applied AI and analytics workloads.
Relevance: Largest cloud platform for building and deploying AI and analytics.
Quantum Technologies · Operation · listed #7 of 50
Runs the Amazon Braket quantum cloud service and the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, which unveiled the Ocelot cat-qubit error-correction chip in 2025.
Relevance: Braket cloud and Ocelot cat-qubit chip; major hyperscaler player
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #10 of 50
Designs and serially builds, in its Kirkland plant, the satellites for its planned 3,236-satellite Kuiper (now Amazon Leo) broadband constellation, which began production launches in 2025.
Relevance: Kuiper/Leo is second-largest LEO broadband effort
Quantum Technologies · Operation · listed #10 of 50
AWS ships ML-KEM hybrid TLS in its s2n-tls and AWS-LC libraries and KMS, ACM and Secrets Manager endpoints, and offers ML-DSA signing in AWS KMS.
Relevance: ML-KEM in s2n-tls, AWS-LC and core services
Artificial Intelligence · Operation · listed #11 of 50
AWS provides model training and hosting (Bedrock, Trainium chips), is Anthropic's main investor and cloud partner, and builds its own Nova models.
Relevance: Major training infrastructure and Anthropic partner; own Nova models secondary.
Semiconductors & Advanced Computing · Operation · listed #11 of 50
The largest cloud operator; it designs Trainium and Inferentia AI chips (Annapurna Labs) and Graviton CPUs and built Project Rainier for Anthropic.
Relevance: Largest cloud; designs Trainium AI chips
Robotics & Autonomous Systems · Operation · listed #17 of 50
Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva) designs and runs the world's largest mobile-robot fleet, over 1 million units including Proteus, Sparrow and Vulcan, across its fulfilment network.
Relevance: Runs the largest mobile warehouse robot fleet globally
Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies · Operation · listed #24 of 50
Deploying the Kuiper (Amazon Leo) LEO constellation of over 3,200 satellites with optical inter-satellite links for infrastructure-independent broadband.
Relevance: Large LEO constellation still being deployed