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A definition or brief description of 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.
+Major [[electronic commerce]], [[cloud computing]] and [[electronic publishing]] service provider, as well as bookseller
-==Book sales and publishing==
-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==
-Under its [[World Wide Web]] operations and development resources, it offers Amazon Web Services, which include:
-*[[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]] ]]  (Amazon EC2)
-*[[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]]