For the first time in almost a decade, online retail platform Amazon reported a net loss of 2.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. After that, in the fiscal year ending December 31st 2024, the net income amounted to 59.2 billion U.S. dollars. Amazon Web Services Amazon does not rely on retailing alone to generate profits. Its cloud business, AWS, is the one segment raking in steady profits with a 24.6 billion U.S. dollar operating income in the most recently reported year. The annual revenue of the business segment came to 90.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. As of the fourth quarter 2023, Amazon Web Services accounted for 31 percent of the global cloud infrastructure service market. Amazon’s other businessesDue to the company’s financial resources, Amazon has the capability to invest in new products and markets, such as online and offline grocery sales. In June 2017, Amazon purchased grocery retailer Whole Foods Market for 13.7 billion U.S. dollars, the company’s most expensive acquisition by far. This acquisition was primarily a move to expand the company's online grocery business, one of the fastest growing online shopping trends in the United States.

In the fourth quarter 2024, Amazon's net income amounted to roughly 20 billion U.S. dollars, up from the previous quarter.Online product sales are the biggest revenue segment of the e-tailer, followed by retail third-party seller services. Amazon not only processes vendor sales but also enables third-party sellers to sell their goods through the platform. In the fourth quarter of 2024, 62 percent of all paid unit sales were generated by 3P sellers.

In 2024, Amazon's total consolidated net sales revenue amounted to 638 billion U.S. dollars, 143 billion U.S. dollars of which were generated through international revenue channels. North America was the biggest operations segment, accumulating nearly 388 billion U.S. dollars in net sales during the year. Sales activities Amazon appeals because it sells a wide range of products. Its departments include beauty, clothing, electronics, games and even wine, along with digital products and subscription services. In 2022, Amazon's largest revenue segment was online retail product sales with roughly 220 billion U.S. dollars in global net sales. Retail third-party seller services ranked second with nearly 118 billion U.S. dollars in sales. A weak spot Faster and more efficient delivery services come with a price. Data from the company's financial reports showed that Amazon's worldwide shipping costs amounted to a staggering 83.5 billion U.S. dollars, up from 76.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. Amazon's annual fulfillment expenses have also risen steadily, from 75.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2021 to over 84 billion U.S. dollars in 2022.

Amazon reported $21.2B in Operating Profit for its fiscal quarter ending in December of 2024. Data for Amazon | AMZN - Operating Profit including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last March in 2025.

Amazon.com's annual net income per employee was $38.08K in fiscal year 2024. The net income per employeeincreased$18.13Kfrom $19.95K(in 2023) to $38.08K (in 2024), representing a 90.85% year-over-year growth.

The combined number of full- and part-time employees at Amazon.com has increased significantly since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, after peaking at 1.62 million in the first quarter of 2022, Amazon's workforce saw a sharp decline. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the U.S. e-commerce multinational headquartered in Seattle, Washington, had 1,556,000 full- and part-time employees. Amazon’s financial dance Amazon’s sharp decline in its workforce is mirrored in the annual net income incurred by the company. In 2022, amazon.com reported a net loss of around 2.7 billion U.S. dollars. However, this is not seen in the company's net sales revenue, which has generally continued to increase over the years, with North America accounting for the largest share. In the final quarter of 2023, amazon.com recorded its highest revenue ever, generating a total of 169 billion U.S. dollars. Amazon's labor dwindles When taking a closer look at the number of workers that amazon.com has employed over the past decade, it is evident that there has been a noticeable decline in recent years. From 2021 to 2023, there was a decrease of over 83,000 employees working for the online marketplace. Even with this decrease in employee count, Amazon still ranks second only to Walmart when comparing leading global companies by the number of employees. To further illustrate, Walmart employed a workforce of 2.1 million individuals in 2023, while Amazon employed 1.5 million.

Amazon Development Center's net profit in Romania variated over the observed period. Amazon's net profit peaked in 2020 at over 5.1 million euros and by 2023 it registered a staggering net loss of 10.6 million euros.

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In 2013, Amazon posted a loss of approximately 1.5 million euros, which improved considerably in the following years. Specifically, the online retail giant had a net income of more than 13 million euros in 2020. However, the following year, it returned to a negative financial position, primarily due to underperforming results from its data center unit. In 2022, Amazon incurred a net loss of approximately 21.3 million euros.

The online revenue of amazon.de amounted to US$17,873.4m in 2024. Discover eCommerce insights, including sales development, shopping cart size, and many more.

The online revenue of amazon.ae amounted to US$750.7m in 2024. Discover eCommerce insights, including sales development, shopping cart size, and many more.

Amazon UK Services Ltd. is the company that operates Amazon's fulfillment centers in the United Kingdom (UK). In the financial year ended December 31, 2022, Amazon achieved a net profit of over 155 million British pounds, drown from the previous year.

The online revenue of amazon.com.be amounted to US$614m in 2024. Discover eCommerce insights, including sales development, shopping cart size, and many more.

Amazon made $35.22 billion from memberships and subscriptions in 2022.

The online revenue of amazon.es amounted to US$4,805.7m in 2024. Discover eCommerce insights, including sales development, shopping cart size, and many more.

YouTube has emerged as the dominant social media platform for driving traffic to Amazon.com, accounting for nearly 60 percent of referrals to the e-commerce platform in December 2023. Facebook.com and Twitter.com followed, contributing about ten and nine percent of social media referrals respectively, while Reddit and WhatsApp rounded out the top five sources. Amazon's dominance Amazon's position as the leading online retailer in the United States is evident in its traffic and sales figures. In December 2023, Amazon still recorded an impressive 2.7 billion combined visits. The company's financial performance remains strong, with a net income of approximately 13.5 billion U.S. dollars in the second quarter of 2024, up from the previous quarters. Mobile presence Amazon's mobile presence continues to grow, with its shopping app downloads reaching a nine-year peak in August 2022 at approximately 25 million. As of July 2024, the Amazon Shopping app reached over 18 million downloads across iOS and Android platforms. That month, Amazon’s shopping app was the most popular app published by the e-commerce and tech giant.

The online revenue of amazon.ca amounted to US$14,615.3m in 2024. Discover eCommerce insights, including sales development, shopping cart size, and many more.

In 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) generated 90.8 billion US dollars with its cloud services. From 2013 until today, the annual revenue of AWS cloud computing and hosting solutions continually increased.

Amazon - additional information Amazon.com went online in 1995, initially as a book store, and achieved almost immediate success. In 1998 the store expanded to include a music and video store and different other products, such as apparel and consumer electronics in the following years. The company is the undisputed leader of the e-retail market in the United States, ranking ahead of walmart.com and apple.com in terms of revenue.

Amazon Web Services In 2006, AWS launched as a cloud computing platform to provide online services. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3, which provide large virtual computing capacity, are the most well-known of these services. The company has dozens of locations in 25 different regions across the world and is continually expanding its global infrastructure to ensure low latency through proximity to the user.

From these data centers, Amazon is offering more than 200 fully featured services to its global customer base. Video streaming service Netflix is one of AWS’s largest customers, using Amazon’s services to store their content on servers throughout the world. Among its more than one million active users, AWS also lists other well-known organizations from various industries, such as Disney, the UK Ministry of Justice, Kellog’s, Guardian News and Media, and the European Space Agency.

The online revenue of amazon.co.jp amounted to US$13,359.9m in 2024. Discover eCommerce insights, including sales development, shopping cart size, and many more.

In the second quarter of 2024, AWS generated cloud computing and hosting revenues of approximately 26 billion U.S. dollars. Amazon Services Amazon is the one of the leading online retailers worldwide and the leading e-retailer in the United States. In 2024, net sales amounted to over 574 billion U.S. dollars, up from 514 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer of books, clothing, electronics, music, and many other consumer products. The company is also the producer of the world’s most famous e-book reader, the Amazon Kindle. The vast majority of Amazon’s revenues are generated through the sales of electronics and other products, followed by third-party seller services and AWS. Although primarily active in the B2C market, Amazon also enables third-party sellers to trade their products as well as providing technology infrastructure services (Amazon Web Services, AWS) to businesses. As of the second quarter of 2024, more than half of paid units were sold by third-party sellers. Amazon Web Services includes cloud computing and hosting services, which is a growing sector of online enterprise services. AWS is one of the most popular public cloud platform and infrastructure services worldwide, with 76 percent of respondents from a global survey indicating that they were already running apps on the platform. Other popular cloud services providers include Microsoft with Azure, Google, Oracle, and IBM.