To provide an online shopping platform that quickly delivers any item, to any person, anywhere, at any time.
Amazon Web Services
To provide cloud services, infrastructure, and data storage to business clients in an agile, flexible, scalable, and secure form.
Revenue streams
Low margin revenue from retail e-commerce sales and fulfillment
E-commerce and fulfillment are low-margin due to costs related to warehousing and upkeeping fulfillment centers
High margin revenue streams from AWS, advertising, and subscription services
Low upkeep and variable costs allow AWS, advertising, and subscription services to be the primary profit driver for Amazon, despite being a significantly smaller revenue stream
Channels
Global distribution channels through shipping partners and fully streamlined fulfillment centers
Enormous online marketing and advertising platforms
Customer relationships
Best-in-class fulfillment systems allowing customers to receive their orders within 1-2 days