Key facts

Founded
2006
HQ
Seattle, United States
Employees
—
Website
Funding stage
Public · Nasdaq: AMZN
LinkedIn
Further facts
  • Ownership: Amazon Web Services is a division of Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) and is reported as its AWS segment.
  • Scale: AWS segment sales rose 37% year on year to US$42.2bn in the second quarter of 2026, with operating income of US$16.6bn, and its AI business passed a US$25bn annual revenue run rate.
  • Timeline: In 2026 AWS committed US$1bn to AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, a team of AI engineers embedded with customers, and added Payments, Web Search and Harness to Bedrock AgentCore.

Focus areas

Cloud platforms Generative AI AI agents AI chips Developer tools

About

Amazon Web Services is the cloud computing division of Amazon.com, launched in 2006 and run from Seattle by CEO Matt Garman. It rents computing, storage, databases and networking on demand and sells AI services on top: Amazon Bedrock for foundation models and agents, SageMaker for building models, Amazon Quick for workplace AI and its own Trainium and Inferentia chips. Banks and insurers use it for core modernisation, data and AI; HSBC built its Wealth and Personal Banking cloud-first platform on AWS, and Moody's, Danske Bank and Pennymac signed new agreements in 2026. AWS segment sales were US$42.2bn in the second quarter of 2026.

How they use AI

AWS sells AI at each layer of the stack. Trainium and Inferentia chips and GPU instances supply compute; Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of foundation models with governance controls and is used by hundreds of thousands of customers; Bedrock AgentCore provides the building blocks to deploy and run agents, now including payments, web search and Harness for agent infrastructure. Amazon Quick and AWS Continuum apply agents to office work and to finding and fixing code vulnerabilities.

Products and services

  • Amazon Bedrock — Managed access to leading foundation models with security and governance controls
  • Bedrock AgentCore — Building blocks to deploy and operate AI agents at scale, including Payments and Web Search
  • Amazon SageMaker — Platform to build, train and deploy machine learning models
  • Amazon Quick — AI work companion that searches and automates across email, files and SaaS tools
  • Trainium and Inferentia — AWS-designed chips for AI training and inference
  • AWS Continuum — Agentic service that finds, prioritises, validates and fixes code vulnerabilities

Notable customers / partners

  • HSBC
  • Moody's
  • Danske Bank
  • Pennymac
  • Fiserv
  • Siemens Energy

Key people

  • Matt Garman — Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services