Amazon empowers small and medium-sized businesses to reach millions of customers.
In pursuit of a better planet, and better skin
This small business owner hitched his future to two soil-strengthening plants from Costa Rica.
Sibling revelry: Three brothers and a sister hand-craft a custom furniture business
A family philosophy provides the foundation for success on Amazon.
Over the last 5-years, Amazon has created more than 125 jobs in the US every day – from fulfillment centers to corporate offices, we’ve invested over $100 billion in the US alone.
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Preserving a ranch’s scarcest resource
By saving precious time, Amazon frees up this Wyoming rancher to focus on the work he loves.
In photos: Amazon expands Vancouver Tech Hub, adding 3,000 high-tech jobs
These new hires will join the more than 6,000 full-time Amazonians across Canada, ranging from customer fulfillment associates to researchers and software engineers.
We're a company of builders. It's our job to make bold bets, and we get our energy from inventing on behalf of customers.
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How to pack a Prime plane
Amazon’s Prime Air planes work on customers’ behalf to fulfill our two-day delivery promise to Prime members.
The inside story of how the Kindle was born
Early development team reveals untold details on Kindle e-reader’s 10-year anniversary
We care deeply about the communities our employees call home.
We look for uniquely Amazonian and innovative ways to make positive, lasting impacts and encourage our employees to champion causes they care about.
We look for uniquely Amazonian and innovative ways to make positive, lasting impacts and encourage our employees to champion causes they care about.
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Taking poverty off the table in Seattle
Giving people a FareStart at building better lives through food.
A $2 million running start to stop homelessness
Thanks to generous donors and supporters, Washington, D.C.-based Friendship Place met their $1 million match offer from Amazon.
If you're an inventor, you'll love being an Amazonian. From day one at Amazon, you'll take ownership of projects that have a direct impact on our customers.
Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 2013
Michael Forzano said he has a good “mental map of the structure of the code,” which allows him to help colleagues and provide unique feedback to his team.
How a door became a desk, and a symbol of Amazon
Today, Amazon offices around the world are filled with door desks, based on Bezos’ early design.
Amazon Leadership Principles
We use our Leadership Principles, every day, whether discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer's problem, or interviewing candidates.
We put our scale and inventive culture to work on sustainability and protecting the environment.
The super-efficient heat source hidden below Amazon's Seattle headquarters
Thanks to a collaboration across city agencies, engineers, a “carrier hotel” and others, Amazon’s newest building is heated by recycling excess energy from a neighboring data center.
Powering a clean future
Amazon's largest wind farm to date is adding more than 1 million megawatt hours of clean energy to the grid each year.
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The stories behind the peculiar building names at Amazon's headquarters
Bigfoot, Houdini, and Nessie have all taken up residence on Amazon’s Seattle urban campus, but how did they end up there?