Amazon.com Inc (Amazon) is a provider of online retail platform. The company provides apparel, auto and industrial items, beauty and health products, electronics, grocery, games, jewelry, kids and baby products, music, sports goods, toys, and tools. It also offers related support services including home delivery and shipping, cloud web hosting and other web related services. The company also provides Amazon Web Services, such as database, compute, storage, and other services, to government agencies, start-ups, enterprises, and academic institutions. Amazon merchandises its products through company-owned online and physical stores. It also manufactures and commercializes various electric devices such as Kindle e-readers, fire tablets, fire TVs, echo, Alexa, and other devices. The company allows authors, musicians, filmmakers, and others to publish and sell content. Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the US.