Amazon.com

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Originally an online bookseller and now a diversified electronic commerce and cloud computing provider, Amazon.com was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and went operational in 1995. It began providing third-party electronic storefronts in 2000.

Book sales and publishing[edit]

It contracted with traditional publishers for deeper-than-usual discounts, in exchange for waiving its right to return unsold materials.

Amazon has become an electronic publisher as well as a retailer. It developed the Kindle book reader.

Information services[edit]

Under its World Wide Web operations and development resources, it offers Amazon Web Services, which include:

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), an Infrastructure as a Service cloud
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Amazon SimpleDB
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
• Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS)
• Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Amazon CloudFront