Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a publicly traded IaaS & Developer Cloud company founded in 2006 and based in Seattle, United States.
Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, United States. It builds an infrastructure-as-a-service and developer cloud platform, offering on-demand virtual servers through Amazon EC2 with GPU-accelerated and Graviton instance options, object storage through Amazon S3, a managed generative AI service through Amazon Bedrock that provides access to foundation models through a single API, and serverless compute through AWS Lambda. Customers include developers, startups and enterprises, and AWS bills for the capacity and services they consume. AWS operates as a business unit of Amazon and is listed on NASDAQ under the ticker AMZN. The company does not present standalone venture funding, and its capital position is that of its public parent. Matt Garman is listed as chief executive of the unit. The company lists a headcount range of 10,000 or more.
AWS supplies compute, storage, and generative AI infrastructure that many third-party cloud platforms and enterprise workloads are built on, according to its product descriptions. EC2 serves as the foundational compute layer, S3 supports backup, data lakes, and analytics, and Bedrock lets enterprises choose among foundation models while keeping data inside their own AWS accounts. Its position within Amazon, a NASDAQ-listed parent, gives it a large and established footprint across the cloud-edge sector.
At a glance
Total raised
Undisclosed
Headcount
10k+
Headquarters
Seattle
United StatesFounded
2006
Status
Public
Subsector
Funding history
Total raised
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Rounds tracked
0
No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.