Description Amazon.com, Inc. is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified into many other categories, with a vision to be earth's most customer-centric company & to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Amazon has websites in over 14 countries and launched the India marketplace (Amazon.in) in July 2013.