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COMPANY PROFILE

Amazon.com, Inc.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Company Overview ........................................................................................................ 3 Key Facts ......................................................................................................................... 3 Business Description ..................................................................................................... 4 History ............................................................................................................................. 6 Key Employees ............................................................................................................. 27 Key Employee Biographies .........................................................................................28 Major Products & Services ..........................................................................................33 Top Competitors ........................................................................................................... 38 Company View .............................................................................................................. 39 Locations And Subsidiaries ........................................................................................43

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Company Overview

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon or 'the company') is one of the largest global online retailers. It offers a wide range of merchandise, including books, apparel, electronics and other general merchandise products through its website www.amazon.com. Amazon also operates through various international websites. The company classifies its business operations into three segments: North America, International and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon has operations in North America, Europe and Asia. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

The company reported revenues of (US Dollars) US$135,987 million for the fiscal year ended December 2016 (FY2016), an increase of 27.1% over FY2015. In FY2016, the company’s operating margin was 3.1%, compared to an operating margin of 2.1% in FY2015. In FY2016, the company recorded a net margin of 1.7%, compared to a net margin of 0.6% in FY2015.

The company reported revenues of US$35,714 million for the first quarter ended March 2017, a decrease of 18.4% over the previous quarter.

Key Facts

KEY FACTS

Head Office Amazon.com, Inc. 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle Washington Seattle Washington USA

Phone 1 206 2661000 Fax Web Address www.amazon.com Revenue / turnover (USD Mn) 135,987.0 Financial Year End December Employees 341,400 NASDAQ Ticker AMZN

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Business Description

BUSINESS DESCRIPTION

Amazon is an online retailer. The company offers a range of products and services through its trademark e-commerce site, amazon.com. The products offered by the company include merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and products offered by third party sellers. The company also manufactures and sells the Kindle devices.

The company operates through three business segments: North America, International and AWS.

The North America segment focuses on retail sales of consumer products (including from sellers) and handles subscriptions through North America-focused websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca and www.amazon.com.mx. This segment also includes export sales generated from these websites. In FY2016, the North America segment reported revenue of USD79,785 million, which accounted for 58.7% of the company's total revenue.

The International segment earns revenue from the retail sales of consumer products (including from sellers) and subscriptions from international websites. This segment also includes export sales from international websites (including export sales from their respective sites to customers in the US, Canada and Mexico), but excludes export sales from North American websites. The segment operates websites such as www.amazon.com.au, www.amazon.com.br, www.amazon.cn, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.in, www.amazon.it, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.nl, www.amazon.es, and www.amazon.co.uk. In FY2016, the International segment reported revenue of USD43,983 million, which accounted for 32.3% of the company's total revenue.

The AWS segment earns revenues from global sales of compute, storage, database, and other AWS service offerings for start-ups, enterprises, government agencies, and academic institutions. In FY2016, the AWS segment reported revenue of USD12,219 million, which accounted for 9% of the company's total revenue.

Amazon caters to four primary customer sets: consumers, sellers, developers and enterprises, and content creators.

The company serves consumers through its retail websites. Amazon designs its websites to enable the sale of millions of unique products; some of these products are sold by Amazon, while the others are sold by third party vendors. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e- readers, Fire tablets, Fire televisions (TVs) and Echo. It also develops and produces media content. Amazon offers merchandise at the lowest possible prices by adopting everyday low product pricing strategy and through shipping offers, including through membership in Amazon Prime. The company also provides order fulfillment services to its consumers. Amazon fulfills customer orders through its fulfillment centers and delivery networks located in North America and other foreign countries; co-sourced and outsourced arrangements in certain countries; and digital delivery.

Amazon caters to sellers by offering programs that enable them to sell their products on their websites and also on Amazon's websites. The company earns fixed fees, revenue share fees, per-unit activity fees and interest on such transactions.

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The company serves developers and enterprises through AWS, which provides a broad set of global compute, storage, database, and other service offerings.

Amazon serves content creators such as authors and independent publishers through Kindle Direct Publishing, an online platform that allows independent authors and publishers to select a 70% royalty option and make their books available in the Kindle Store. The company also offers its own publishing arm, Amazon Publishing. It also offers programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, application developers, and others to publish and sell content.

In addition, Amazon generates revenues through co-branded credit card agreements and advertising services.

Geographically, the company classifies its operations into five segments, namely the US, Germany, Japan, the UK, and Rest of the World. In FY2016, the US segment accounted for 66.4% of the company's total revenues; followed by Germany with 10.4%; Japan with 7.9%; the UK with 7%; and Rest of the World with 8.2%.

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History

HISTORY

Amazon was promoted by Jeff Bezos.

The company's website was publicly launched, when it became the exclusive book retailer on the Netscape and America Online websites.

The company's initial public offering on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange took place.

Amazon acquired Bookpages, Telebook, Internet Movie Database, Planet All and Junglee Corp.

Amazon expanded with the acquisition of stakes in drugstore.com, HomeGrocer.com, Pets.com and Exchange.com.

Amazon formed a strategic alliance with Toysrus.com to create a co-branded toy and video games store as well as a co-branded baby products store.

Amazon established a strategic alliance with Borders Group to re-launch the Borders.com website on the Amazon e-commerce platform.

The company launched imaginarium.com, a co-branded specialty and learning toy store.

Amazon established a strategic alliance with the Virgin Entertainment Group to re-launch Virgin Megastore's US and Japanese websites using the Amazon e-commerce platform.

The company launched its Canadian website.

Amazon signed a multi-year agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Foot Locker to operate the NBA Store on NBA.com and the Women's NBA Store on WNBA.com.

The company added over 40,000 gourmet food items, more than 60,000 jewelry items, and over 70,000 health and personal care items to its product portfolio.

Amazon acquired joyo.com, one of the largest online retailers of books, music and videos in China. Through this acquisition, the company entered the Chinese internet market.

The company signed a strategic alliance with The Bombay Company to launch new websites powered by Amazon's e-commerce technology for Bombay, Bombay Kids, Bombay Outlet, and Bombay's Canadian operations.

Amazon acquired BookSurge, a global leader in inventory-free book printing and fulfillment based in Charleston, South Carolina.

The company officially launched its search engine A9. AWS launched 'Amazon S3', a simple storage service for software developers at very low costs.

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Amazon acquired Shopbop.com (www.shopbop.com), a retailer of fashion-forward apparel, shoes and accessories for women.

The company launched Endless.com, an online shoe and accessories store.

Amazon acquired www.dpreview.com, a site for digital camera information and reviews. The company acquired Brilliance Audio (www.brillianceaudio.com), the largest independent publisher of audio books in the US.

Amazon acquired Fabric.com, an online fabric store offering custom measured and cut fabrics, as well as patterns, sewing tools and accessories.

Amazon completed the acquisition of AbeBooks, an online marketplace for books, with over 110 million primarily used, rare and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of independent booksellers from around the world.

LOVEFiLM, a digital versatile disc (DVD) rental subscription service provider in the UK, acquired Amazon's DVD rental business in the UK and Germany. Amazon completed the acquisition of Audible.com. Audible is a provider of spoken audio information and entertainment on the Internet. As a result of the transaction, Audible became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon.

Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), a subsidiary of Amazon, agreed to acquire Without A Box, an online service that enables independent filmmakers to submit their works to festivals worldwide and to promote movies online.

AWS extended Amazon EC2 to the European market.

Amazon launched its new Indie & Art House store at www.amazon.com/indies.

The company also launched Motorcycle & all-terrain vehicle (ATV) Store (www.amazon.com/motorcycle), a single shopping destination for motorcycle and ATV parts, accessories and protective gear. AWS launched a public beta of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) running Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server, which provided even greater flexibility for deploying solutions in the AWS cloud.

Amazon completed the acquisition of Zappos.com, an online apparel, footwear and accessories retailer.

The company introduced 'Amazon Kindle 2'. Amazon launched the Amazon Xbox LIVE Store, www.amazon.com/xboxlive, offering customers the option to purchase and gift selected Xbox LIVE games, subscription cards and Microsoft Points cards. The company launched Amazon Kindle DX, a reading device that offers Kindle's wireless delivery and a massive selection of content with a large 9.7 inch electronic paper display, built-in PDF reader, auto-rotate capability, and storage for up to 3,500 books.

The company launched AmazonBasics (www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics), a new private-label collection

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of consumer electronics.

Amazon acquired Quidsi, which operates Diapers.com, an online baby care specialty site, and Soap.com, an online site for everyday essentials.

The company acquired BuyVIP.com, a fashion and lifestyle online buying community.

Amazon allowed authors and publishers around the world to use the self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store. Previously, the service was available only to authors and publishers in the US.

BuyVIP.com has more than six million members in countries such as Spain, Germany and Italy.

Amazon introduced Kindle DX with Global Wireless, a new version of Kindle with the convenience of wireless content delivery, in over 100 countries.

Amazon launched its Wheels Store, a shopping destination for wheels and related parts and accessories. Subsequently, Amazon also launched a new generation of Kindle, with electronic ink screen, 21% smaller body and 15% lighter weight. Endless.com launched its new jewelry category featuring 68 brands and more than 3,500 styles.

Amazon.ca launched its new Sports and Outdoors Store featuring several brands and sports and activity related products.

AWS launched the beta release of Amazon Simple Notification Service. This service allows developers to publish messages from an application and immediately deliver the message to subscribers or other applications. AWS launched its Amazon Relational Database Service in the European Union. The service provides cost-efficient and resizable database capacity in the cloud by automating database administration tasks. Amazon launched a new customer education center, Amazon 3D 101, a one stop information and shopping center for all 3D related merchandise.

The company announced plans for a new fulfillment center in Romeoville, Illinois, and Jacksonville, Florida.

Amazon acquired the remaining shares in LOVEFiLM International, one of the leading European subscription entertainment services.

CBS Corporation (CBS) and Amazon entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement enabling Amazon's customers to stream TV shows from CBS's library. Further in the year, Amazon signed a licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution allowing Amazon Prime members to stream select Universal Pictures movies through Prime Instant Video.

The company entered into a partnership with Triggit, a San Francisco based company, to strengthen its focus on online display advertisement business.

Amazon and Hearst Corporation (Hearst) entered into an expanded, multi-faceted consumer marketing,

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e-commerce and content relationship. Through this relationship, Amazon became Hearst's single-largest third-party seller of print subscriptions for its magazines through digital channels.

Amazon opened a 900,000 square feet fulfillment center in Indianapolis, Indiana

The company opened 1.2 million square feet fulfillment center in Phoenix, Arizona. Amazon company opened 500,000 square feet fulfillment center in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Amazon launched Kindle Fire selling at $199, much lower than Apple's cheapest iPad priced at $499.

Amazon Launchpad announced a Kickstarter Collection, which features over 300 Kickstarter products available for purchase on Amazon.com.

Amazon.es launched the Spanish Kindle Store offering its customers access to more than 22,000 Spanish-language Kindle books, including best sellers, and more than a thousand free classics in Spanish. Amazon.it launched the Italian Kindle Store offering its customers more than 16,000 Italian- language Kindle books, a wide range of best sellers and hundreds of free Italian classics

Amazon.fr launched the French Kindle Store offering its customers more than 35,000 French-language Kindle books, 28 L'Express best sellers, graphic novels and more than 4,000 free classics in French. Amazon.ca launched its new Tools and Building Supplies Store (amazon.ca/tools) featuring more than 60,000 tool and home improvement-related products. Further in the year, Endless.com launched its free endless.com application for iPhone. This application allows Amazon's customers to purchase from a wide assortment of shoes and accessories for men, women and kids.

The company launched the biggest eBook store in Germany. .

Amazon, in partnership with the UK government, announced plans to explore the steps required to make the delivery of parcels by small drones a reality.

The company announced plans work with Hearst in e-commerce.

A cross government team supported by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) provided Amazon with permissions to explore three key innovations: beyond line of sight operations in rural and suburban areas; testing sensor performance to make sure the drones can identify and avoid obstacles; and flights where one person operates multiple highly-automated drones.

Amazon acquired Kiva Systems, one of the leading developers of material handling technology.

AWS entered into an agreement with Netflix to operate a number of mission-critical, customer-facing and backend applications for Netflix.

LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, and Sony Pictures Television signed a multi-year content deal, allowing LOVEFiLM members access to new and future Sony Pictures titles, as well as catalog titles and TV series.

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Amazon expanded its fulfillment center in Phoenix by 400,000 square feet.

The company opened a 193,500 square feet fulfillment center in Canada, 450,000 square feet fulfillment center in the UK, 1,000,000 square feet fulfillment center in Germany, and 860,800 square feet fulfillment center in Japan.

The company opened 1,000,000 square feet fulfillment center in Germany and 430,400 square feet fulfillment center in France. Amazon also opened nearly one million square feet fulfillment center in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

The company opened a 244,000 square feet fulfillment center in Saga, Japan.

Amazon launched Amazon Textbook Rental program. Through this program, students can rent textbooks for the semester and save up to 70%. The company launched India Kindle Store on Amazon.com (www.amazon.com/kindlestoreindia). Amazon launched its Amazon Appstore in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This gives the European customers access to Amazon's broad range of Android applications with the convenience of shopping on Amazon from their Android phones and tablets.

Amazon launched Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Paperwhite third Generation (3G). These are the most advanced e-readers created with 62% more pixels and 25% higher contrast. Amazon.co.jp introduced Japanese Kindle Store and Kindle Paperwhite, the first Japanese-language Kindle. Amazon introduced a new Kindle application designed for Windows 8. The company opened fulfillment centers in the following locations: one each in Delaware, Indiana and Spain, and two each in Tennessee and Virginia.

Amazon Services, a subsidiary of the company, launched a new version of Amazon WebStore, a full- featured e-commerce product that enables small and medium sized retailers and manufacturers to design, build and manage their multichannel e-commerce businesses using the company's technology.

AWS introduced Amazon Simple Workflow Service, a workflow service for developing scalable and resilient applications. The company launched a new Spanish-language eBook store within the Amazon Kindle Store, eBooks Kindle en Espanol (www.amazon.com/tiendakindle). AWS introduced Amazon CloudSearch, a new service that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications. Amazon launched AmazonSupply (www.amazonsupply.com), a new website offering a broad range of parts and supplies to business, industrial, scientific and commercial customers. Amazon.ca launched its new Baby store (amazon.ca/baby) with more than 25,000 baby- related products.

Amazon launched Kindle Fire high definition (HD) tablet which has seven inch display and is sold for $199.

The company launched Fulfillment by Amazon, a new service for third-party sellers that provides access to Amazon's fulfillment and customer service resources and expertise. Amazon launched Amazon Wine (www.amazon.com/wine), a new website offering customers a broad range of wines crafted by wineries around the country.

The company launched the Brazil Kindle Store (www.amazon.com.br) and Free Portuguese Kindle

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reading applications for Android phones and tablets, iPads and iPhones. Amazon launched Friends & Family Gifting, a feature that allows customers to keep track of birthdays and special occasions, get shopping reminders and manage gift ideas for everyone on their list.

Amazon Publishing acquired the publication rights from Avalon Books to more than 3,000 backlist titles mainly in the romance, mystery and Western categories.

The company launched Amazon Coin, a new virtual currency for purchasing games, applications and in- app items on Kindle Fire. AWS introduced AWS OpsWorks, an application management solution for the complete lifecycle of complex applications, including resource provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring and access control. This enables developers to manage all tasks required to model, deploy, scale, and maintain their applications. Amazon.ca launched Amazon Mobile Application for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone. This allows customers to browse and shop for products, compare prices, read reviews and make purchases on the go.

Amazon acquired IVONA Software, a text-to-speech technology company.

The company acquired Touchco, a touch screen technology company.

Amazon reached an agreement to acquire Goodreads, one of the world's largest sites for readers and book recommendations.

Amazon reached an agreement to acquire TenMarks, a company which designs web-based mathematics curriculum for students. Amazon and TenMarks will together develop educational content and applications, across multiple platforms.

Amazon opened a one million square feet fulfillment center in Tracy, California as well as in Coppell, Texas.

The company opened a new customer service facility in Winchester, Kentucky.

The company allowed authors and publishers to use the self-service Kindle DTP to upload and make available their books in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian to customers worldwide.

Amazon announced the availability of Amazon Cloud Player for iOS in BMW applications and MINI Connected-equipped vehicles from model year 2011 forward. Amazon Cloud Player customers using iPhone and iPod Touch devices can access their music using the vehicle's controller and screen. Amazon Publishing launched StoryFront, a new imprint offering short fiction across genres. Amazon introduced a new version of Kindle FreeTime on Kindle Fire tablets with several new educational books, applications, games and videos, including Common Core Standard-aligned books, educational applications from developers like BrainPOP and Agnitus, and movies and TV shows.

Amazon launched the Australian Kindle Store, offering more than two million eBooks, the most English language best sellers and more than 400,000 Kindle-exclusive titles. AWS launched Amazon WorkSpaces, a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. AWS launched Amazon AppStream, a new service that enables developers to stream resource-intensive applications and games

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from the cloud to a broad range of devices.

Amazon Studios, the original film and series production arm of Amazon, introduced Amazon Storybuilder, a new product to help writers. Amazon Storybuilder makes notecarding digital, giving screenwriters the ability to lay out digital notecards on a virtual corkboard to capture the beats of their story. Also, these notecards are saved online, giving users access to their projects on their computer, tablet or smartphone.

AWS launched Amazon Elastic Transcoder, a highly scalable service for transcoding video files between different digital media formats. Through this, customers can convert their large high resolution master video files into smaller versions that are optimized for playback on websites, mobile devices, connected TVs and other video platforms.

Amazon entered into an exclusive content licensing agreement with new film studio A24 to make Prime Instant Video the exclusive premium subscription home for all of the current and forthcoming A24 titles shortly following their release on DVD and Blu-Ray.

AWS also introduced Amazon Kinesis, a fully managed service for real-time processing of high-volume, streaming data. It also introduced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS manages complex and time-consuming administrative tasks such as PostgreSQL software installation and upgrades, storage management, replication for high-availability and back-ups for disaster recovery.

The company also launched Amazon Storyteller, a free online tool for writers and filmmakers, which turns scripts into storyboards. Amazon launched Amazon Art (www.amazon.com/art), a marketplace offering customers direct access to more than 40,000 works of fine art from over 150 galleries and dealers. The company launched 'Login and Pay with Amazon', allowing participating companies to empower customers to browse and buy using their Amazon account information. The company's Wine Store introduced shipping to customers in New York, Michigan, Arizona and Louisiana.

The company launched Kindle Fire HD with a large 8.9 inch display in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan. Amazon.ca launched beauty and health and personal care stores offering more than 80,000 items, including diapers and wipes, household supplies, health care and nutrition, personal care items and beauty products.

The company launched 50+ Active and Healthy Living Store (www.amazon.com/50activeliving) featuring several nutrition, wellness, exercise and fitness, medical, personal care, beauty and entertainment items. Amazon Wine Store introduced shipping to customers in Texas. Amazon Publishing launched Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable writers to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties.

AWS announced the availability of I2 instances, the next generation of Amazon EC2 storage-optimized high I/O instances based on solid state disk (SSD) technology that provides customers with high random I/O performance.

Amazon acquired comiXology, a company that operates in the comic book and graphic novel industry. comiXology offers a wide variety of digital comic book content from over 75 of the top publishers and top

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independent creators. This acquisition significantly increased the product offering of the company.

Amazon and Giunti, an Italian bookstore chain, announced an exclusive agreement to launch a new bookstore model, as well as to offer Giunti customers access to a wide selection of Amazon products.

Amazon announced that as part of its licensing agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, Prime Instant Video became the exclusive online-only subscription home for streaming all 192 episodes of the award-winning series 24.

Amazon entered into a US content licensing agreement with Aardman Animations, under which Prime Instant Video became the exclusive subscription streaming home for award-winning TV and short film series, Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Timmy Time and classic animation Rex the Runt.

Amazon and CBS, a mass media company, announced a content licensing agreement for the new CBS Television series Extant.

Amazon entered into a content licensing agreement with HBO to make Prime Instant Video the exclusive online-only subscription home for select HBO programming. The collection includes various shows like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Big Love, Deadwood, Eastbound & Down, Family Tree, Enlightened, Treme, early seasons of Boardwalk Empire and True Blood, as well as mini-series like Band of Brothers, John Adams and others.

HIT Entertainment, a preschool entertainment company and a division of Fisher-Price, announced Amazon as its exclusive US home to the preschool franchise Fireman Sam. According to the agreement, TV episodes, eBooks, and physical products like apparel, toys and lunch boxes were made available at Amazon with free shipping and free two-day shipping with Amazon Prime. .

Kindle Worlds entered into licensing agreements with Hasbro and Warner Bros. Television Group's Alloy Entertainment. Under the agreement, Kindle Worlds will open seven new Worlds, including Worlds based on Hasbro's G.I. JOE brand, and Warner Bros. TV shows Veronica Mars and Pretty Little Liars' spinoff Ravenswood.

The company opened fulfillment centers in Windsor, Connecticut; Kent, Washington; and Redlands, California.

The company announced the availability of Amazon coins for customers in the US, UK and Germany to buy, spend and earn on android devices.

The company opened one million square feet fulfillment center in Baltimore, Maryland and a 1.2 million square feet fulfillment center in Moreno Valley, California.

Amazon introduced Fire, the first smartphone designed by the company. Fire has two new technologies, Dynamic Perspective and Firefly. Dynamic Perspective uses a new sensor system which responds to the way the user holds, views, and moves the Fire smartphone, while Firefly quickly recognizes the web and email addresses, phone numbers, bar codes, movies and music, and allows the user to take action in seconds.

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Amazon launched a new 3D printed products store (www.amazon.com/3dp), a marketplace that gives customers access to more than 200 print on-demand products. Many of these products can also be customized by material, size, styles and color variations, and personalized with text and image imprints. Amazon Publishing and Alloy Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Television Group, introduced a new digital-first imprint with focus on young adult, new adult and commercial fiction.

Amazon.ca introduced two new stores: musical instruments and wireless, further expanding its selection available to customers in Canada.

AWS announced the availability of a new SSD-backed volume type for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) that delivers high-performance storage at a low cost.

AWS announced the EC2 container service. This container management service makes it easy to run and manage distributed applications using containers on AWS. With this service, customers can start, stop, and manage thousands of containers in seconds. AWS introduced AWS Lamba, a compute service that runs developers' code in reply to events and manages the compute resources automatically. This service is feasible to build and manage applications that respond quickly to new information.

AWS launched its new AWS for the Frankfurt region, marking its 11th technology infrastructure region globally for AWS and the second region in the European Union. Through this new AWS, customers can leverage AWS to build their businesses and run applications on infrastructure located in Germany.

Amazon launched Amazon Elements, a new line of premium, everyday essentials with transparent origins.

Amazon.ca launched same-day delivery service in Toronto and Vancouver. AWS introduced three new services: AWS Key Management Service, which helps customers in creating and controlling the encryption keys used to encrypt their data on the AWS Cloud; AWS Config, which provides customers with full visibility into their AWS resources and associated relationships; and AWS Service Catalog, which allows enterprise administrators to create and share catalogs of customized products that incorporate company-approved standard architectures and configurations. AWS introduced AWS CodeDeploy, a fully managed service that allows developers to automate the process of deploying and updating applications on Amazon EC2.

AWS announced the availability of Dense Compute nodes, a new SSD-based node type. Dense Compute nodes allow customers to create faster, lower-cost data warehouses with Amazon Redshift.

AWS announced the availability of T2 instances, a new Amazon EC2 instance type. T2 instances was designed to significantly reduce costs for applications that do not require sustained high central processing unit (CPU) performance but benefit from the ability to burst to full core performance. AWS launched several new capabilities, including Amazon Cognito, Amazon Mobile Analytics and Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK), to help developers in building, deploying, and scaling mobile applications in a better way. AWS introduced Amazon Zocalo, an enterprise storage and sharing service that improves user productivity. The company introduced Kindle Unlimited, an eBook subscription service which gives customers access to over 600,000 eBooks and audiobooks, for $9.99 per month.

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The company introduced Amazon Local Register, a secure card reader and mobile application. This application provides local businesses with the tools they need to quickly and easily accept credit and debit cards from a smartphone or tablet and keep track of their growing business.

The company introduced Fire TV, a tiny box that allows easy and instant access to Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, WatchESPN, SHOWTIME, low-cost video rentals, and others. Amazon Game Studios introduced Sev Zero, its first game built from the ground up for Fire TV. The company launched its wearable technology store, which offers a variety of wearable technology and research wearable devices, including activity trackers, smart watches and wearable cameras.

The company launched the new German-language publishing program under Amazon Publishing. The European Amazon Publishing team acquired German-language fiction for publication in Kindle and print editions available on Amazon.

The company launched Waterfall Press, a new Christian imprint specializing in faith-based non-fiction and fiction.

Amazon launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Baltimore, Maryland. The company introduced Amazon Fire tablet in China. The company launched Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition, which is the combination of all-new Fire HD 8, a year of Kindle Unlimited with access to more than one million books, and a limited edition leather cover. It also comprises Blue Shade, a new feature that adjusts and optimizes the display on Fire HD 8 tablet to reduce blue light exposure before bedtime. The company introduced its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Austin, Texas.

The company announced plans to open two fulfillment centers in Obetz and Etna, Ohio.

Amazon expanded its Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery to Chicago and Orlando, as well as new locations in the New York City, Northern New Jersey and Philadelphia areas.

Amazon opened one fulfillment center each in Dallas, Texas; and Joliet, Illinois.

AWS announced two new capabilities: AWS Snowball and Amazon Kinesis Firehose, which help customers to transfer any type or any size of data to the AWS Cloud quickly and cost-effectively. AWS Snowball transfers terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS, whereas Amazon Kinesis Firehose is a fully managed service for loading streaming data into AWS. AWS announced two new database services: AWS Database Migration service and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. AWS Database Migration service enables customers to transfer production databases to AWS without any interruption, whereas MariaDB is available as a managed service in AWS.

AWS introduced a new platform, AWS Internet of Things (IoT). This platform enables devices such as cars, turbines, sensor grids and light bulbs, among others, to connect to AWS services so that companies can store, process, examine, and act on the volumes of data generated by connected devices on a global scale. The company launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Portland, Oregon; San Antonio, Texas; and San Francisco Bay area, California.

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AWS launched Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-powered business intelligence service that enables all employees to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and to quickly get business insights from their data. Amazon QuickSight, which integrates automatically with AWS data services, makes use of a new, Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (SPICE) to execute advanced calculations and render visualizations.

Amazon expanded Kindle Scout, its reader-powered publishing platform, to authors and readers outside the US, including Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and India.

The company expanded the Prime video downloads to iOS and Android platforms. As a result, Prime members in the US, UK, Germany and Austria will be able to download movies and TV episodes, including Amazon Original Series, to iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets for offline viewing, at no additional charge.

Amazon introduced Fire TV and Fire TV stick in Japan.

The company launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Los Angeles. Amazon launched its first Amazon Fire TV, which offers more than 3,000 channels, applications and games. It also provides a new Fire TV stick with voice remote. The company introduced new Fire HD tablets, which feature a wide screen, thin and light design, quad-core processor, stereo speakers with Dolby audio, front- and rear- facing cameras, and micro secure digital (microSD) card. Fire HD also launched Fire operating system (Fire OS) 5 ‘Bellini’, with an updated user interface.

General Electric, Samsung, August, Gmate, Oster, Obe, Petnet, CleverPet, Sutro, Thync, and Sealed Air joined the Amazon Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) program. The program enables connected devices to automatically order physical goods from Amazon when supplies are running low. It also provides convenience and ease for both customers and device makers. Amazon and CBS, a mass media company, announced a new multi-year, multi-series agreement to make Prime Video the exclusive subscription streaming home for three new CBS summer series through 2018.

The company introduced Amazon Launchpad, a new program that offers a streamlined onboarding experience, custom product pages, a complete marketing package, and access to Amazon's global fulfillment network. The program enables the startups to launch, market, and distribute their products to hundreds of millions of Amazon customers across the globe. Amazon launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Seattle.

AWS contracted with Iberdrola Renewables, the US renewable energy division of parent company Iberdrola, to construct and operate a 208 MW wind farm in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties, North Carolina, called the Amazon Wind Farm US East. This new wind farm generates approximately 670,000 MWh of wind energy annually.

AWS announced that enterprise software providers such as Looker, Qlik, Sumo Logic, and Works Applications declared themselves 'all-in' with AWS as the core infrastructure platform that powers their Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.

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AWS introduced Amazon API Gateway, a new fully managed service that enables AWS customers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. AWS introduced AWS Device Farm, a new service that enables mobile application developers quickly and securely test their applications on smartphones, tablets, and other devices to enhance the quality of their Android and Fire OS applications.

AWS partnered with Community Energy, a developer of renewable energy with a long history in solar and wind energy, to construct an 80 MW solar farm in Accomack County, Virginia, called Amazon Solar Farm US East. This new solar farm is expected to start generates approximately 170,000 MWh of solar power annually.. It is the largest solar farm in the state of Virginia, with all energy generated delivered into the electrical grids that supply both current and future AWS Cloud datacenters.

AWS contracted with EDP Renewables, one of the global leaders in the renewable energy sector and the fourth largest producer of wind power in the world, to construct and operate a 100 MW wind farm in Paulding County, Ohio, called the Amazon Wind Farm US Central. This new wind farm is expected to start generating approximately 320,000 MWh of wind energy annually starting May 2017.

The company announced plans to open a fulfillment center in Carteret, New Jersey.

AWS announced Amazon Machine Learning, a fully managed service that helps developers to use historical data to build and deploy predictive models easily. The company introduced Amazon shopping application for Apple Watch in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the US and the UK. The application is designed for the on-the-go customer and it offers a custom-made Amazon experience with voice search and quick tap features including 1-Click purchase and save to wish list. Amazon launched Amazon Business (www.amazon.com/business), a new marketplace on Amazon.com with new features and unique benefits tailored to businesses.

Amazon Cloud Drive launched two new unlimited cloud storage plans, including Unlimited Photos Plan and Unlimited Everything Plan. Through these plans, customers can securely store their existing content collections and automatically upload unlimited new content, including photos, videos, movies, music, and files. The company launched Amazon Home Services, a new marketplace for on-demand professional services.The partnership enables prime members in the US to enjoy the selection of films from Bleecker Street through the Amazon Instant Video application for TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/PIV without additional cost to their membership.

The company introduced Amazon Giveaway, a new self-service tool, designed to modernize the time- tested radio giveaway. Amazon.ca introduced Kindle Unlimited, a new subscription service which allows customers to freely read as much as they want from over 750,000 Kindle books, for only C$9.99 ($7.98) per month.

The company entered into a content licensing agreement with Starz Digital Media, one of the leading integrated global media and entertainment companies. Starz Digital Media will make Prime Instant Video the exclusive online-only subscription streaming home in the US for The White Queen - the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated original miniseries from premium entertainment service provider, Starz. As per the deal, Prime members can watch the miniseries from the Amazon instant video application for TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/PIV, without additional cost to their membership.

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The company signed a power purchase agreement with Pattern Energy Group, one of the leading independent power companies in the US, to support the construction and operation of a wind farm in Benton County, Indiana, called the AWS Wind Farm. This new wind farm is expected to start generating about 500,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind power annually.

AWS acquired Elemental Technologies, a provider of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. This acquisition strengthens the company's position in the media and entertainment industry.

Amazon and Bleecker Street, an independently-financed film distribution company in the US, entered into a multi-year content licensing agreement.

Amazon China entered into an agreement with Baidu, one of the leading internet services companies, to provide a search, applications, and online video experience on Amazon tablets in China.

Accenture and AWS formed a business group, the Accenture AWS Business Group, to help clients to migrate and run their businesses in AWS cloud. The group delivers information technology and business services through AWS cloud.

Amazon announced that Prime Now service in Los Angles will deliver food from local stores, including Sprouts Farmers Market, Bristol Farms, Sprinkles Cupcakes, Fresh & Easy, Erewhon Organic Grocer and 99 Ranch Market.

Amazon.ca introduced its Wearable Technology store (www.amazon.ca/wearabletechnology). The new store, which offers products in wearable technology including activity trackers, smart watches, and wearable cameras, features several products from top brands including Jawbone, Garmin, Fitbit and Motorola, as well as products from emerging brands like Lumo and Spire.

Prime Now expanded its delivery options in Chicago, to include groceries, prepared meals and baked goods from local stores such as Plum Market, Sprinkles Cupcakes, and My Fit Foods.

The company announced that Prime Now service in Seattle will deliver food from local restaurants, including Cactus, Wild Ginger, Skillet, Marination Station, Re:public, Cafe Yumm!, Ten Mercer, and Mamnoon.

Amazon introduced its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in San Diego, California.

Amazon introduced Kindle Textbook Creator, which makes it easy to create e-Textbooks and other educational content with features like flashcards, highlighting, and note-taking. Kindle Textbook Creator enhances the learning experience of the educators and authors.

AWS introduced Amazon WorkMail, an email and calendaring service in the cloud. With Amazon WorkMail, users can send and receive email, manage contacts, share calendars, and book resources using the same email applications (Microsoft Outlook, their Web browser, or their native iOS and Android email applications) without buying and managing email server software.

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The company launched the Collectible Coins store, a marketplace that gives customers direct access to more than 10,000 US coins from over 75 dealers.

The company launched Prime Reading, which gives Prime members access to unlimited selection of books, magazines and comics at no additional cost.

AWS introduced P2 instances for Amazon EC2, which is designed for compute-intensive applications. The company and Twitch, one of leading social video platforms and communities for gamers in the world, announced Twitch Prime, a new set of Amazon Prime benefits created for gamers.

The company announced plans to introduce new features to Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The new features enable customers to use their voice to search for favorite content, find the best subscription deals, and also see recommendations for popular programming from applications including Netflix, HBO GO and HBO NOW. Amazon plans to build a new 253 MW Amazon Wind Farm in Scurry County, Texas. It is expected to open in 2017.

Amazon opened a fulfillment center in Edgerton, Kansas. The company opened a fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota.

AWS announced the availability of Amazon Kinesis Analytics, a new service that enables developers to gain actionable insights from streaming data. The company announced Amazon Vehicles, a car research destination and automotive community, where customers can view specifications, images, videos, and customer reviews for various car models on Amazon.com. In addition, customers can ask questions about their vehicle and find parts and accessories that fit their current car.

The company opened a fulfillment center in Obetz, Ohio.

The company announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Kansas City, Kansas; and Sacramento, California. Amazon announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Houston, Texas. It is the seventh fulfillment center to be opened in Texas.

AWS expanded its global footprint with the introduction of Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, which provides Indian customers a local choice to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. It is the sixth location in Asia Pacific.

Amazon opened The Mark Cuban Collection (www.amazon.com/exclusives) on Amazon Exclusives, which gives customers direct access to innovative new products. Georgia.

The company announced plans to open two new fulfillment centers in Edwardsville, Illinois. Amazon announced that Prime Now service in Atlanta will deliver food from local restaurants, including Aviva by Kameel, Chai Pani, Flip Burger, Flying Biscuit, Grindhouse Killer Burgers, and Varasano’s Pizzeria, among others. The company announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Braselton,

The company launched Amazon Video Direct (AVD), a new self-service program that enables creators and storytellers to make their video content available to Amazon customers. Amazon introduced

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Handmade, a store that comprises over 20,000 handmade items (accessories, baby, and toys and games, among others) crafted and sold directly from artisans. Amazon launched Prime Now service in Manhattan, which will deliver food from local restaurants, including Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken, Burger Joint, ilili, John’s of Bleecker Street, Junior's Restaurant & Cheesecake, Momofuku Milk Bar, Num Pang and Sarabeth’s Tribeca, among others. AWS introduced X1 instances for Amazon EC2. X1 instances offer more memory than any other SAP-certified cloud instance.

The company launched Kindle Oasis, an eight generation of Kindle, which is thinner and lighter Kindle ever. AWS announced the availability of two new low-cost hard disk drive (HDD)-backed storage options for Amazon EBS.

The company introduced the Amazon Payments Partner program, which provides tools and services to help partners grow their business by offering easy integration with Amazon Payments. Amazon introduced its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in 11 new metro areas, including Charlotte, Cincinnati, Fresno, Louisville, Milwaukee, Nashville, Raleigh, Richmond, Sacramento, Stockton, and Tucson; and new areas in Central New Jersey, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

Amazon announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Texas. This is the company’s sixth fulfillment center in Texas. Amazon announced plans to open two fulfillment centers in Florence and Carteret, New Jersey.

Amazon launched two new Alexa-enabled devices: Echo Dot and Amazon Tap. Echo Dot is a hands-free, voice controlled device, which uses the same far-field voice recognition as Echo, whereas Amazon Tap is a portable bluetooth and Wi-Fi speaker. AWS introduced AWS Database Migration service, which enables customers to migrate their production Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases from on-premises datacenters to AWS with virtually no downtime.

Amazon.ca introduced two new unlimited cloud storage plans with Amazon Cloud Drive. These plans enable customers to securely store their existing content collections and automatically upload unlimited new content. The company announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in San Bernardino, California.

The company signed a multi-year production agreement with American Girl, a premium brand for girls and subsidiary of Mattel, to produce four live-action specials and options to produce multiple seasons of episodic content. The company, in partnership with Brita, launched first Wi-Fi-enabled Brita Infinity pitcher, which automatically orders a new filter through Amazon Dash Replenishment.

AWS opened its fifth technology infrastructure region in Asia Pacific. This platform enables Korean-based businesses, as well as global companies with customers in Korea to build their businesses and run their applications in the AWS cloud. The company announced that Prime Now service in Chicago will deliver food from local restaurants, including Balena, Big Bowl, Big Star, Chicago q, M Burger, RPM Italian and Wildfire, among others.

Amazon acquired Twitch Interactive, a live video platform for gamers. Through this acquisition, the company strengthened its market position in the gaming industry.

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The company announced that Prime Now service in Dallas will deliver food from local restaurants, including Blue Goose Cantina, Deep Sushi, Ellen’s Southern Kitchen, Fireside Pies, Greenville Avenue Pizza Company, Grub Burger Bar, and Terilli’s Restaurant and Bar, among others.

Amazon announced the availability of Fire, its fastest selling tablet, in new colors and more storage options.The company also announced that Prime Now service in San Francisco will deliver food from local restaurants, including Big Chef Tom’s Belly Burgers, Buca di Beppo, DOSA, The Monk’s Kettle, Nick’s Crispy Tacos and Pressed Juicery, among others.

Amazon opened a new fulfillment center in Fall River, Massachusetts. The company opened a fulfillment center in San Marcos, Texas.

Brother printers, a General Electric washer, and the Gmate SMART blood glucose monitor joined DRS program. These are the first devices to join the program.

The company announced that Prime Now service in Houston will deliver food from local restaurants, including Carrabba’s, El Tiempo Cantina, Max’s Wine Dive, P.F. Chang’s, Thai Gourmet, and The Hay Merchant.

The company expanded Handmade at Amazon into Europe. Amazon customers in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and across Europe can shop for more than 30,000 handcrafted products.

Amazon announced that Prime Now service in San Diego will deliver food from local restaurants, including Carnitas’ Snack Shack, Dumpling Inn, Rubicon Deli, T Deli, Tajima and Tandoori Hut, among others.

Amazon Prime introduced Prime Music, allowing its members to have unlimited, advertisement-free access to more than a million songs without additional cost to their membership

Amazon.ca launched a new ‘Business, Industrial and Scientific Supplies’ store (www.amazon.ca/industrial), which features lab and scientific products; professional medical supplies; power and hand tools; additive manufacturing products including 3D printing products; janitorial and sanitation supplies; occupational health and safety products; tapes, adhesives and sealers; and test, measure and inspection products.

AWS introduced Amazon Lumberyard, a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for developers. The platform enables the developers to create and connect their games to the wide compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch.

Kindle launched Singles Classics with essays and stories by well-known authors.

The company announced a new feature to Kindle: Page Flip, which helps in the navigation of pages.

The company introduced new Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, which provides access to more than 300,000 movies and TV episodes.

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Amazon announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Coppell, Texas, and Monee, Illinois.

AWS acquired NICE, one of the leading providers of software and services for high performance and technical computing.

In June, the company expected to launch music service for echo users soon.

In September, the company launched commuter bus service for Eastside employees.

In November, the company launched prime video service in India.

In August, the company launched a 4G VoLTE ready Bingo 50+ smartphone.

In November, the company launched Prime streaming video in Canada.

In October, the company planned to provide Internet service with Prime bundle in Europe.

In November, the company extended its partnership with Morrisons to launch same day delivery service.

In November, the company launched its services in the Netherlands and working on launching its video service.

In November, the company planned to launch new video chat service.

In December, the company planned to launch a live TV package in 2017.

In November, Amazon plans to enter Singapore in early 2017.

Amazon introduced a new voice ordering service, which enables its customers to voice-order their next meal from Amazon Restaurants on their Alexa-enabled devices including the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot. This new Alexa skill allows the customers to reorder from any restaurant available on the service in over 20 cities by saying, ‘Alexa, order from Amazon Restaurant’.

The company announced plans to open a one million square feet fulfillment center in Colorado. It is the first fulfillment center in Colorado.

Live Nation Entertainment, one of the leading live entertainment and ticketing companies, selected AWS as its public cloud infrastructure provider and is moving its global information technology infrastructure to the AWS Cloud.

AWS launched Amazon Chime, a new unified communications service that makes meetings easier and efficient. Amazon Chime allows its customers to start high-quality video and audio meetings with one- click, enabling them to join a meeting, chat, and share content and screens with a synchronized experience across desktops, iOS, and Android devices.

The company introduced the latest generation Amazon Fire TV Stick in the UK, Germany, and Japan.

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Amazon launched a solar energy initiative on fulfillment center rooftops to generate clean energy. The company plans to install solar systems on 50 fulfillment facility rooftops worldwide by 2020.

The company launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Amazon entered into an agreement to acquire SOUQ.com, one of the e-commerce leaders in the Middle East. The acquisition allows the company to offer its services for millions of customers in the Middle East.

AWS introduced Amazon Connect, a self-service, cloud-based contact center service that enables any business to deliver better customer service at lower cost. Amazon Connect is based on the contact center technology.

AWS plans to open an infrastructure region or a data center in Stockholm, Sweden by 2018.

The company announced the availability of high-performance far-field microphone array and voice processing technology, found in Amazon Echo, to hardware makers. With the Amazon Alexa 7-Mic Far- Field Development Kit, hardware makers can build and introduce far-field voice-initiated products with Alexa by decreasing development time and cost.

Dunkin' Brands Group (the parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins) and HERE Technologies (one of the leading global providers of maps and location services), in two different transactions, selected AWS as their preferred cloud infrastructure provider.

Amazon Lex, an artificial intelligence (AI) service for building applications that can have conversations using voice and text, was made available to all customers by AWS.

AWS introduced Amazon Redshift Spectrum, a new feature that enables Amazon Redshift customers to run SQL queries against exabytes of their data in Amazon S3.

AWS launched Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator, a fully managed in-memory cache that can reduce Amazon DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds.

The company introduced a self-service subscriptions marketplace, which allows digital subscription providers to reach millions of Amazon customers.

Red Hat, one of the world's leading providers of open source solutions, and AWS announced an extended strategic alliance to integrate access to AWS services into Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Through this unique offering, customers can deploy AWS services from within Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform both on-premises and in the cloud.

In May, the company expanded its operations with the addition of seven new warehouses in India.

In March, the company launched AmazonFresh Pickup click and collect grocery services in the US.

In May, Samsung announced to sell its new 360-degree camera at a cost of US$229 and it is available at

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online platforms such as -Mobile, Verizon, Best Buy, Amazon, AT&T, Sprint, U.S. Cellular, and ShopSamsung app.

In May, American Express launched the new Amex skill for Amazon Alexa, at its Innovation Showcase event in New York.

In June, the company plans to open its first Oregon fulfillment center in Troutdale.

In June, the company plans to open a new fulfillment center in North Haven.

In June, the company plans to open its second Colorado fulfillment center in Thornton.

In June, the company planned to open a new fulfillment center in Sunshine, Miami.

In July, the company acquired e-commerce firm Souq for US$580 million.

In July, Amazon signed an agreement to acquire Whole Foods for a consideration of US$13.7 billion.

In June, the company to construct a facility at Salt lake City valued US$200 million.

In July, the company planned to open new office in the Seaport District in the Bay State.

In July, the company planned to initiate underwater warehouses.

In July, the company acquired Game Sparks Technologies, a cloud service provider.

In July, the company invested in its payments entity, Amazon Pay India, with INR130 crore.

In June, the company opened up a Hub Warehouse in Wynwood, US.

In February, the company planned to expand in the UK by hiring 5,000 additional staff.

In April, the company launched the Echo Look, a new device with artificial-intelligence powered speakers that includes a camera to take videos and photos of their outfits.

In March, the company launched Prime membership in Mexico.

In September, the company launched streaming services that compete with Apple and Spotify.

In April, the company launched Amazon cash for the unbanked and underbanked customers.

In March, the company launched a new grocery-store pickup service in Seattle.

In April, the company planned to open a big new office in downtown Bellevue, Wash.

In March, the company launched an Indian entertainment channel, Heera in the US.

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In February, the company opened a bookstore in the San Francisco Bay area.

In February, the company open two customer service facilities in Coimbatore, Noida.

In April, the company planned to launch an online emporium with full-fledged retail presence in Australia.

In April, the company launched its Amazon Pay service in Italy.

In January, the company signed an agreement with EU regulator for e-books contracts.

In May, the company launched new Fire tablets, Fire 7 and the Fire HD.

In May, the company expanded its prime reading service to Prime subscribers in the UK.

In May, the company launched UK pay-TV service.

In May, the company planned to enter UK and Europe’s retail industry with check-out free supermarkets.

In May, the company expanded OTT channel subscriptions to the UK, Germany.

In June, Bango enabled a new payment option for Amazon customers in Japan.

In June, the company announced that it will receive an approval from FDI for its proposal of investment in retail of food products in India.

In June, the company expanded its Prime Now Service to members in Denver.

In June, the company launched new cashback perk service.

In June, the company rolled out its first payments integration on Instagram.

In June, the company expanded its Dash button service with 20 new brands.

In June, the company planned to introduce a new service that translates multiple languages.

In June, the company launched a new, China-Specific Kindle E-reader.

In June, the Aurora City Council approved an agreement for intersection work for Amazon project.

In June, the company opened up a Hub Warehouse in Wynwood, the US.

In June, the company and Olive Garden signed a partnership for new food services.

In July, the company launched its own wine brand with king vinters.

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In July, the company planned to invest US$260 million in its Indian unit.

In July, the company initiated selling of spectacles with snappy delivery.

In January, Amazon planned to open Brick & Mortar Bookstore in New York City.

In July, the company's Treasure Truck facility expanding to other US cities.

In July, the company partnered with Coway to develop a hi-tech water purifier.

In July, the company opened its new London HQ in a 15-storey building in Shoreditch to increase the research & development staff range from 450 to 900.

In July, the company announced to offer sprouts groceries through Prime Now same-day service.

In July, the company launched its Prime Now delivery service in Singapore.

In July, the company opened location in Westwood with added benefits for Prime members.

In August, the company confirmed plans to set up a fulfilment centre in Melbourne in Australia.

In July, the company launched its second fulfilment centre in Lucknow.

In August, Titan tied up with Amazon to foray into the US market.

In August, the company rolled out instant pickup points in the US.

In August, the company launched high-volume hiring for new Michigan warehouse.

In February, Amazon Development Centre plans to establish two customer service facilities, in Coimbatore and Noida, the US.

In August, the company opened packing and shipping warehouse in Salem, India.

In August, the company opened its second Oregon fulfillment center in Salem, India.

In August, the company plans to open a new fulfillment center in North Randall, Ohio, the US.

In August, the company and DTS to launch the first DTS Play-Fi-enabled wireless speakers with Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS).

In September, Amazon plans to open a new fulfillment center in Charter Township of Shelby, Michigan, the US.

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Key Employees

KEY EMPLOYEES

Name Job Title Board Compensation Jeffrey P. Bezos President, Chief Executive

Officer and Chairman of the Board

Executive Board 1681840 USD

John Seely Brown Director Non Executive Board Jamie S. Gorelick Director Non Executive Board Daniel P. Huttenlocher Director Non Executive Board 890730 USD Judith A. McGrath Director Non Executive Board Jonathan J. Rubinstein Director Non Executive Board 793087 USD Thomas O. Ryder Director Non Executive Board 793087 USD Patricia Q. Stonesifer Director Non Executive Board 793087 USD Wendell P. Weeks Director Non Executive Board 676125 USD Brian T. Olsavsky Senior Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer Senior Management 4558647 USD

Jeffrey M. Blackburn Senior Vice President, Business Development

Senior Management 22194343 USD

David A. Zapolsky Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Senior Management

Andrew R. Jassy Chief Executive Officer, AWS

Senior Management 35609644 USD

Jeffrey A. Wilke Chief Executive Officer, Worldwide Consumer

Senior Management 32958114 USD

Tom A. Alberg Director Non Executive Board Shalini Puchalapalli Director-India Senior Management Shelley L. Reynolds Vice President, Worldwide

Controller and Principal Accounting Officer

Senior Management

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Key Employee Biographies

KEY EMPLOYEE BIOGRAPHIES

Jeffrey P. Bezos

Board:Executive Board Job Title:President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board Since:2000 Age:53

Jeffrey P. Bezos has been the President at Amazon since 2000, Chief Executive Officer since 1996 and Chairman of the Board since 1994. Previously, he served as the company's President until 1999.

John Seely Brown

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director Since:2004 Age:76

John Seely Brown has been a Director at Amazon since 2004. He has been a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California since 1996 and an Independent Co- Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge since 2006. Mr. Brown served as the Chief Scientist at Xerox Corporation and a Director at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the past. He served as a Director at Corning Incorporated from 1996 to 2014 and at Varian Medical Systems from 1998 to 2013.

Jamie S. Gorelick

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director Since:2012 Age:66

Jamie S. Gorelick has been a Director at Amazon since 2012. She has also been a Partner with the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr since 2003. Previously, Ms. Gorelick was the Deputy Attorney General of the US, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, an Assistant to the Secretary of Energy, and a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Threats Upon the US. She has been a Director at VeriSign since 2015. Ms. Gorelick served as a Director at United Technologies Corporation from 2000 to 2014 and at Schlumberger Limited from 2002 to 2010.

Daniel P. Huttenlocher

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director

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Since:2016 Age:58

Daniel P. Huttenlocher has been a Director at Amazon since 2016. Mr. Huttenlocher has been the Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech at Cornell University since 2012. Currently, he also serves as a Director at Corning Incorporated.

Judith A. McGrath

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director Since:2014 Age:64

Judith A. McGrath has been a Director at Amazon since 2014. She has also been the President of Astronauts Wanted * No experience necessary, a multimedia joint venture between Ms. McGrath and Sony Music Entertainment, since 2013. Ms. McGrath was the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer at MTV Networks Company, a subsidiary of Viacom, from 2004 to 2011.

Jonathan J. Rubinstein

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director Since:2010 Age:60

Jonathan J. Rubinstein has been a Director at Amazon since 2010. He was the Co-Chief Executive Officer at Bridgewater Associates from 2016 to April 2017. Mr. Rubinstein served as the Senior Vice President of Product Innovation for the Personal Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) from 2011 to 2012. He was also a Senior Vice President and the General Manager of Palm Global Business Unit at HP from 2010 to 2011. Mr. Rubinstein was the Chief Executive Officer and President at Palm, a smartphone manufacturer, from 2009 until its acquisition by the HP in 2010, and the Chairman of its Board of Directors from 2007 through the acquisition. Prior to joining Palm, he was a Senior Vice President at Apple and was the General Manager of the iPod Division. Mr. Rubinstein served as a Director at Qualcomm Incorporated in the past.

Thomas O. Ryder

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director Since:2002 Age:72

Thomas O. Ryder has been a Director at Amazon since 2002. He served as the Chairman at the Reader’s Digest Association 1998 to 2006 and its Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2005. From 1984 to 1998, Mr. Ryder also held various roles at American Express, including President of American Express

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Travel Related Services International. He has been a Director at RPX Corporation since 2009, at Quad/Graphics since 2010, and at Interval Leisure Group since 2016. Mr. Ryder served as a Director at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide from 2001 to 2016, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Virgin Mobile USA from 2007 to 2009.

Patricia Q. Stonesifer

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director Since:1997 Age:60

Patricia Q. Stonesifer has been a Director at Amazon since 1997. She has also been the President and Chief Executive Officer at Martha's Table since 2013. Previously, Ms. Stonesifer was the Vice Chairperson of the Board of Regents at Smithsonian Institution from 2012 to 2013 and the Chairperson from 2009 to 2012. She also served as a Senior Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2008 to 2012. Previously, Ms. Stonesifer served as the Chief Executive Officer at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2006 to 2008 and the President and Co-Chairperson from 1997 to 2006. During 1988–97, she served in many roles at Microsoft Corporation, including Senior Vice President of the Interactive Media division. Since 2009, Ms. Stonesifer has been a Private Philanthropy Advisor. She also served as the Chairperson at the Gates Learning Foundation from 1997 to 1999.

Wendell P. Weeks

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director Since:2016 Age:57

Wendell P. Weeks has been a Director at Amazon since 2016. He has been the Chief Executive Officer at Corning Incorporated since 2005, the President since 2010 and the Chairman since 2007. Mr. Weeks also serves as a Director at Merck & Co.

Brian T. Olsavsky

Board:Senior Management Job Title:Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Since:2015 Age:53

Brian T. Olsavsky has been a Senior Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer at Amazon since 2015. Prior to this position, he served as the Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for the Global Consumer Business at the company. Mr. Olsavsky joined Amazon in 2002. He also served as the Vice President of Finance for North America retail business unit and acquisitions at the company from 2007 to 2010, and also led the finance departments for Amazon's Worldwide Operations organization from 2002 to 2007. Prior to joining Amazon, Mr. Olsavsky held several financial and business

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management positions at Fisher Scientific and several financial and operational roles at BF Goodrich and Union Carbide.

Jeffrey M. Blackburn

Board:Senior Management Job Title:Senior Vice President, Business Development Since:2006 Age:47

Jeffrey M. Blackburn has been the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Amazon since 2006. He served as the Vice President of Business Development at the company from 2004 to 2006, the Vice President of European Customer Service from 2003 to 2004 and the Vice President of Operations Integration from 2002 to 2003. Prior to joining Amazon in 1998, Mr. Blackburn was an Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.

David A. Zapolsky

Board:Senior Management Job Title:Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Since:2014 Age:53

David A. Zapolsky has been a Senior Vice President, the General Counsel and Secretary at Amazon since 2014. Prior to this position, he served as a Vice President, the General Counsel and Secretary at the company. Mr. Zapolsky joined Amazon in 1999 as an Associate General Counsel for Litigation and Regulatory matters and was named Vice President in 2002. Prior to joining the company, he was a Partner at the Seattle offices of Dorsey & Whitney and Bogle & Gates. Mr. Zapolsky also served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and later practiced law at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.

Andrew R. Jassy

Board:Senior Management Job Title:Chief Executive Officer, AWS Since:2016 Age:49

Andrew R. Jassy has been the Chief Executive Officer of AWS at Amazon since 2016. Previously, he served as the Senior Vice President of AWS at the company from 2006 to 2012.

Jeffrey A. Wilke

Board:Senior Management Job Title:Chief Executive Officer, Worldwide Consumer Since:2016

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Age:50

Jeffrey A. Wilke has been the Chief Executive Officer of Worldwide Consumer at Amazon since 2016. Prior to this position, he served as the Senior Vice President of Consumer Business at the company from 2012 to 2016. Mr. Wilke also served as the Senior Vice President of North American Retail at Amazon from 2007 to 2012, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations from 2002 to 2006. He joined the company as a Vice President and the General Manager of Operations in 1999. Mr. Wilke also served as a Vice President and General Manager of Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals at Honeywell International.

Tom A. Alberg

Board:Non Executive Board Job Title:Director Since:1996 Age:76

Tom A. Alberg has been a Director at Amazon since 1996. He has also been a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, a venture capital firm, since 1999 and a Principal at Madrona Investment Group, a private investment firm, since 1996. Prior to co-founding Madrona Investment Group, Mr. Alberg served as the President at LIN Broadcasting Corporation; and an Executive Vice President at McCaw Cellular Communications and at AT&T Wireless Services.

Shelley L. Reynolds

Board:Senior Management Job Title:Vice President, Worldwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer Since:2007 Age:52

Shelley L. Reynolds has been the Vice President of Worldwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at Amazon since 2007. She served as the Vice President of Finance and Controller at the company from 2006 to 2007. Prior to joining Amazon, Ms. Reynolds was a Partner at Deloitte & Touche from 1998.

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Major Products & Services

MAJOR PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Amazon is one of the largest global online retailers. The company's key products and services include the following:

Products:

Books:

Books Children's Books Magazines Textbooks Kindle Books Audible Audiobooks

Movies, Music and Games:

Movies Blu-Ray Amazon Videos Compact Discs (CDs) and Vinyl Digital Music Musical Instruments Headphones Video Games Personal Computer Games Digital Games Entertainment Collectibles

Electronics and Computers:

TVs and Videos Home Audio and Theater Camera, Photo and Video Cell Phones and Accessories Headphones Video Games Bluetooth and Wireless Speakers Car Electronics Musical Instruments Wearable Technology Products Electronic Accessories Computers and Tablets Monitors

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Computer Accessories Drives and Storage Products Computer Parts and Components Software Products Printers and Ink Office and School Supplies

Home, Garden and Tools:

Kitchen and Dining Furniture Bedding and Bath Appliances Patio, Lawn and Garden Equipment Fine Art Arts, Crafts and Sewing Pet Supplies Wedding Registry Items Event and Party Supplies Home Improvement Supplies Power and Hand Tools Lamps and Light Fixtures Kitchen and Bath Fixtures Hardware

Beauty, Health and Food:

Beauty Products Men's Grooming Products Health, Household and Baby Care Products Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Grocery and Gourmet Food Wine

Toys, Kids and Baby:

Toys and Games Baby Products Video Games for Kids

Clothing, Shoes and Jewelry:

Clothing for Men, Women, Kids and Infants Luggage Jewelry

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Handmade Products:

Jewelry Handbags and Accessories Beauty and Grooming Products Home Decors Artwork Stationery and Party Supplies Kitchen and Dining Products Furniture

Sports and Outdoors:

Athletic Clothing Exercise and Fitness Equipment Hunting and Fishing Equipment Team Sports Golf Equipment Leisure Sports Products Sports Collectibles Camping and Hiking Equipment Cycling Outdoor Clothing Scooters, Skateboards and Skates Water and Winter Sports Climbing

Automotive and Industrial:

Automotive Parts and Accessories Automotive Tools and Equipment Car/Vehicle Electronics and Global Positioning System (GPS) Tires and Wheels Motorcycle and Powersports Industrial Supplies Lab and Scientific Products Janitorial and Safety Products

Amazon Music:

Amazon Music Prime Music Open Web Player

Kindle E-Readers and Books:

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Kindle Kindle Paperwhite Kindle Voyage Kindle Oasis Kindle For Kids Bundle Kindle Accessories Kindle Books Newsstand Kindle Unlimited Free Kindle Reading Applications Kindle Cloud Reader

Fire Tablets

Amazon Fire TV:

Amazon Fire TV Fire TV Stick Fire TV and HD Antenna Bundle Prime Video Amazon Video Fire TV Applications and Channels Games for Fire TV Amazon Photos and Drive

Echo and Alexa:

Amazon Echo Echo Dot Amazon Tap Alexa Application Alexa Smart Home Accessories Alexa Skills Guide

Services:

Web Services (Compute, Storage, and Database Offerings) Order Fulfillment Publishing Services Advertising Services Co-Branded Credit Cards Home Services

Brand:

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Kindle

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Top Competitors

TOP COMPETITORS

The following companies are the major competitors of Amazon.com, Inc.

Apple Inc AT&T Inc Barnes & Noble, Inc. Best Buy Co, Inc. Dollar Tree Inc eBay Inc FedEx Corporation Google Inc International Business Machines Corporation Microsoft Corporation Netflix, Inc. Sears Holdings Corporation Target Corporation United Parcel Service, Inc. Wal-Mart Stores Inc

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Company View

COMPANY VIEW

A statement by Jeffrey P. Bezos, the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at Amazon, is given below. The statement has been taken from the company's Annual Report for FY2016.

To our shareholders:

Amazon.com passed many milestones in 1997: by year-end, we had served more than 1.5 million customers, yielding 838% revenue growth to USD147.8 million, and extended our market leadership despite aggressive competitive entry.

But this is Day 1 for the Internet and, if we execute well, for Amazon.com. Today, online commerce saves customers money and precious time. Tomorrow, through personalization, online commerce will accelerate the very process of discovery. Amazon.com uses the Internet to create real value for its customers and, by doing so, hopes to create an enduring franchise, even in established and large markets.

We have a window of opportunity as larger players marshal the resources to pursue the online opportunity and as customers, new to purchasing online, are receptive to forming new relationships. The competitive landscape has continued to evolve at a fast pace. Many large players have moved online with credible offerings and have devoted substantial energy and resources to building awareness, traffic, and sales. Our goal is to move quickly to solidify and extend our current position while we begin to pursue the online commerce opportunities in other areas. We see substantial opportunity in the large markets we are targeting. This strategy is not without risk: it requires serious investment and crisp execution against established franchise leaders.

It’s All About the Long Term

We believe that a fundamental measure of our success will be the shareholder value we create over the long term. This value will be a direct result of our ability to extend and solidify our current market leadership position. The stronger our market leadership, the more powerful our economic model. Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Our decisions have consistently reflected this focus. We first measure ourselves in terms of the metrics most indicative of our market leadership: customer and revenue growth, the degree to which our customers continue to purchase from us on a repeat basis, and the strength of our brand. We have invested and will continue to invest aggressively to expand and leverage our customer base, brand, and infrastructure as we move to establish an enduring franchise.

Because of our emphasis on the long term, we may make decisions and weigh tradeoffs differently than some companies. Accordingly, we want to share with you our fundamental management and decision- making approach so that you, our shareholders, may confirm that it is consistent with your investment philosophy:

We will continue to focus relentlessly on our customers.

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We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitability considerations or short-term Wall Street reactions.

We will continue to measure our programs and the effectiveness of our investments analytically, to jettison those that do not provide acceptable returns, and to step up our investment in those that work best. We will continue to learn from both our successes and our failures.

We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a sufficient probability of gaining market leadership advantages. Some of these investments will pay off, others will not, and we will have learned another valuable lesson in either case.

When forced to choose between optimizing the appearance of our GAAP accounting and maximizing the present value of future cash flows, we’ll take the cash flows.

We will share our strategic thought processes with you when we make bold choices (to the extent competitive pressures allow), so that you may evaluate for yourselves whether we are making rational long-term leadership investments.

We will work hard to spend wisely and maintain our lean culture. We understand the importance of continually reinforcing a cost-conscious culture, particularly in a business incurring net losses.

We will balance our focus on growth with emphasis on long-term profitability and capital management. At this stage, we choose to prioritize growth because we believe that scale is central to achieving the potential of our business model.

We will continue to focus on hiring and retaining versatile and talented employees, and continue to weight their compensation to stock options rather than cash. We know our success will be largely affected by our ability to attract and retain a motivated employee base, each of whom must think like, and therefore must actually be, an owner.

We aren’t so bold as to claim that the above is the “right” investment philosophy, but it’s ours, and we would be remiss if we weren’t clear in the approach we have taken and will continue to take.

With this foundation, we would like to turn to a review of our business focus, our progress in 1997, and our outlook for the future.

Obsess Over Customers

From the beginning, our focus has been on offering our customers compelling value. We realized that the Web was, and still is, the World Wide Wait. Therefore, we set out to offer customers something they simply could not get any other way, and began serving them with books. We brought them much more selection than was possible in a physical store (our store would now occupy 6 football fields), and presented it in a useful, easyto- search, and easy-to-browse format in a store open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. We maintained a dogged focus on improving the shopping experience, and in 1997 substantially enhanced our store. We now offer customers gift certificates, 1-ClickSM shopping, and

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vastly more reviews, content, browsing options, and recommendation features. We dramatically lowered prices, further increasing customer value. Word of mouth remains the most powerful customer acquisition tool we have, and we are grateful for the trust our customers have placed in us. Repeat purchases and word of mouth have combined to make Amazon.com the market leader in online bookselling.

By many measures, Amazon.com came a long way in 1997:

Sales grew from USD15.7 million in 1996 to USD147.8 million – an 838% increase.

Cumulative customer accounts grew from 180,000 to 1,510,000 – a 738% increase.

The percentage of orders from repeat customers grew from over 46% in the fourth quarter of 1996 to over 58% in the same period in 1997.

In terms of audience reach, per Media Metrix, our Web site went from a rank of 90th to within the top 20.

We established long-term relationships with many important strategic partners, including America Online, Yahoo!, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, AltaVista, @Home, and Prodigy.

Infrastructure

During 1997, we worked hard to expand our business infrastructure to support these greatly increased traffic, sales, and service levels:

Amazon.com’s employee base grew from 158 to 614, and we significantly strengthened our management team.

Distribution center capacity grew from 50,000 to 285,000 square feet, including a 70% expansion of our Seattle facilities and the launch of our second distribution center in Delaware in November.

Inventories rose to over 200,000 titles at year-end, enabling us to improve availability for our customers.

Our cash and investment balances at year-end were USD125 million, thanks to our initial public offering in May 1997 and our USD75 million loan, affording us substantial strategic flexibility.

Our Employees

The past year’s success is the product of a talented, smart, hard-working group, and I take great pride in being a part of this team. Setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been, and will continue to be, the single most important element of Amazon.com’s success.

It’s not easy to work here (when I interview people I tell them, “You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three”), but we are working to build something important, something that matters to our customers, something that we can all tell our grandchildren about. Such things aren’t meant to be easy. We are incredibly fortunate to have this group of dedicated employees whose sacrifices and passion build Amazon.com.

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Goals for 1998

We are still in the early stages of learning how to bring new value to our customers through Internet commerce and merchandising. Our goal remains to continue to solidify and extend our brand and customer base. This requires sustained investment in systems and infrastructure to support outstanding customer convenience, selection, and service while we grow. We are planning to add music to our product offering, and over time we believe that other products may be prudent investments. We also believe there are significant opportunities to better serve our customers overseas, such as reducing delivery times and better tailoring the customer experience. To be certain, a big part of the challenge for us will lie not in finding new ways to expand our business, but in prioritizing our investments.

We now know vastly more about online commerce than when Amazon.com was founded, but we still have so much to learn. Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency. The challenges and hurdles we will face to make our long-term vision for Amazon.com a reality are several: aggressive, capable, well-funded competition; considerable growth challenges and execution risk; the risks of product and geographic expansion; and the need for large continuing investments to meet an expanding market opportunity. However, as we’ve long said, online bookselling, and online commerce in general, should prove to be a very large market, and it’s likely that a number of companies will see significant benefit. We feel good about what we’ve done, and even more excited about what we want to do.

1997 was indeed an incredible year. We at Amazon.com are grateful to our customers for their business and trust, to each other for our hard work, and to our shareholders for their support and encouragement.

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Locations And Subsidiaries

LOCATIONS AND SUBSIDIARIES

Head Office

Amazon.com, Inc. 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle Washington Seattle Washington USA Phone:1 206 2661000 www.amazon.com

Other Locations and Subsidiaries

Amazon EU S.a.r.l. 5 Rue Plaetis Luxembourg Luxembourg LUX

Amazon Europe Holding Technologies SCS 65, Boulevard Grande-Duchesse Charlotte Luxembourg City Luxembourg City LUX Phone:352 2299995235 Fax:352 2299995435

Amazon Fulfillment Services, Inc. Delaware Delaware USA

Amazon Services LLC Suite 220 8329 West Sunset Road Las Vegas Nevada Las Vegas Nevada USA

Amazon Technologies, Inc. 8329 West Sunset Road Suite 220 Las Vegas Las Vegas USA

Amazon Web Services Inc Seattle Washington Seattle Washington USA Phone:1 2062664064 www.aws.amazon.com

Amazon Web Services Inc Seattle Washington

Amazon.com Int’l Sales, Inc. 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle

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Washington Seattle Washington USA

Amazon.com LLC Delaware Delaware USA

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