Amazon is an American multinational technology company that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookstore and has since expanded into multiple product categories. Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary, offers Amazon S3, an object storage service that provides scalable storage through a web interface using the same infrastructure that powers Amazon's e-commerce site. Major companies like Netflix, Airbnb, Dropbox, Expedia, Stitch Fix, and Duolingo use Amazon S3 to store and manage images, videos, user data, and other files due to its scalability, reliability, and security.