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Amazon.com, Inc.[1] (also /ˈæməzən/ AM-ə-zən) is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.[5] It is considered one of the Big Five American technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company of Google), Apple, Meta (parent company of Facebook) and Microsoft.
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington,[6] on July 5, 1994. Initially an online marketplace for books, it has expanded into a multitude of product categories, a strategy that has earned it the moniker The Everything Store.[7] It has multiple subsidiaries including Amazon Web Services (cloud computing), Zoox (autonomous vehicles), Kuiper Systems (satellite Internet), and Amazon Lab126 (computer hardware R&D). Its other subsidiaries include Ring, Twitch, IMDb, and Whole Foods Market. Its acquisition of Whole Foods in August 2017 for US$13.4 billion substantially increased its footprint as a physical retailer.[8]
Amazon has earned a reputation as a disruptor of well-established industries through technological innovation and "aggressive" reinvestment of profits into capital expenditures.[9][10][11][12] As of 2023[update], it is the world's largest online retailer and marketplace, smart speaker provider, cloud computing service through AWS,[13] live-streaming service through Twitch, and Internet company as measured by revenue and market share.[14] In 2021, it surpassed Walmart as the world's largest retailer outside of China, driven in large part by its paid subscription plan, Amazon Prime, which has close to 200 million subscribers worldwide.[15][16] It is the second-largest private employer in the United States.[17]
Amazon went public in May 1997. It began selling music and videos in 1998, and began international operations by acquiring online sellers of books in the United Kingdom and Germany. In the subsequent year, it initiated the sale of a diverse range of products, including music, video games, consumer electronics, home improvement items, software, games, and toys..[32][33]
Amazon.com is an e-commerce platform that sells many product lines, including media (books, movies, music, and software), apparel, baby products, consumer electronics, beauty products, gourmet food, groceries, health and personal care products, industrial & scientific supplies, kitchen items, jewelry, watches, lawn and garden items, musical instruments, sporting goods, tools, automotive items, toys and games, and farm supplies[51] and consulting services.[52] Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.fr for France), though some offer international shipping.[53]
In 2001, Amazon entered into a similar agreement with Borders Group, under which Amazon would comanage Borders.com as a co-branded service.[69] Borders pulled out of the arrangement in 2007, with plans to also launch its own online store.[70]
Amazon lobbies the United States federal government and state governments on multiple issues such as the enforcement of sales taxes on online sales, transportation safety, privacy and data protection and intellectual property. According to regulatory filings, Amazon.com focuses its lobbying on the United States Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Reserve. Amazon.com spent roughly $3.5 million, $5 million and $9.5 million on lobbying, in 2013, 2014 and 2015, respectively.[181] In 2019, it spent $16.8 million and had a team of 104 lobbyists.[182]
Very similar to Masterpass, Visa Checkout is a digital wallet thatsecurely stores your customer's credit card details and shippingaddresses. It speeds up the checkout process across thousands of onlineshopping websites because your customer no longer needs to retype theircredit card number every time that they shop.
Note that Visa Checkout can store cards issued by most global paymentcard networks, not just Visa. You can give your customers a simplified,enhanced shopping experience by using Visa Checkout with your AmazonPayment Services facility.
You can speed up your customer's shopping experience if your customerhas a Masterpass account because your customer no longer needs to retypetheir credit card number every time that they shop. Note that Masterpasswallets can contain payment cards from a range of card networks --Masterpass is not restricted to Mastercard payment cards.
You can give your customers a simplified, enhanced shopping experienceby using Masterpass with your Amazon Payment Services facility. Pleaseview our API reference for the complete integration workflow forMasterpass.
We've given you an overview of digital wallets, but you're welcome toget in touch with specific questions -- just email the team atmerchant...@amazon.com for advice on integration routes and bestpractice.
Further, the processing logic for your data is authored only once, and features generated are used for both training and inference, reducing the training-serving skew. Feature Store is a centralized store for features and associated metadata so features can be easily discovered and reused. You can create an online or an offline store. The online store is used for low latency real-time inference use cases, and the offline store is used for training and batch inference.
The following diagram shows how you can use Feature Store as part of your machine learning pipeline. First, you read in your raw data and process it. You can ingest data via streaming to the online and offline store, or in batches directly to the offline store. You first create a FeatureGroup and configure it to an online or offline store, or both. Then, you can ingest data into your FeatureGroup and store it in your store. A FeatureGroup is a group of features that is defined via a schema in Feature Store to describe a record.
Online store is primarily designed for supporting real-time predictions that need low millisecond latency reads and high throughput writes. Offline store is primarily intended for batch predictions and model training. Offline store is an append only store and can be used to store and access historical feature data. The offline store can help you store and serve features for exploration and model training. The online store retains only the latest feature data. Feature Groups are mutable and can evolve their schema after creation.
Alternatively, Feature Store can process and ingest data in batches. You can author features using Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, create feature groups in Feature Store and ingest features in batches using a SageMaker Processing job with a notebook exported from Data Wrangler. This mode allows for batch ingestion into the offline store. It also supports ingestion into the online store if the feature group is configured for both online and offline use.
With Feature Store, you can enrich your features stored in the online store in real time with data from a streaming source (clean stream data from another application) and serve the features with low millisecond latency for real-time inference.
Feature generation pipelines can be created to process large batches (1 million rows of data or more) or small batches, and to write feature data to the offline or online store. Streaming sources such as Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka or Amazon Kinesis can also be used as data sources from which features are extracted and directly fed to the online store for training, inference, or feature creation.
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office for Family Independence (OFI) announced today that Maine people who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can now make online food purchases at Amazon and Walmart using their electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card.
Online EBT purchasing in Maine promotes equitable and safe shopping options during the COVID-19 pandemic and gives low-income households access to the same purchasing options as other shoppers. DHHS hopes to expand the pilot to include local merchants in the future.
Amazon Shopping is the official Amazon app for Android devices. This app allows you to search for items, compare prices, read reviews, and place orders with this international corporation. You can manage your shopping online and have them delivered anywhere from your device.
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