Amazon is a publicly owned American multinational technology company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest online retailer in the United States and the second largest in the world after Alibaba. The company was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, along with Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Amazon has over 1 million employees and had over $1 billion in revenue in 2020.