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Amazon's card reader has promised customers who register for the service before October 31 will only be charged 1.75 percent on all transaction fees made through the swipe reader until January 1, 2016. Outside of that deal, merchants using Amazon Local Register are charged 2.5 percent for each swiped transaction and 2.75 percent for all manually keyed-in purchases.

Amazon announced on August 25, 2014 that it would buy game-streaming service Twitch for about $970 million in cash; the deal closed on September 25, 2014 and Twitch kept its brand and independence.

On November 6, 2014 Amazon unveiled the Echo, a voice-controlled speaker with the Alexa assistant, priced at $199 ($99 for Prime members for a limited time) and sold by invitation until July 14, 2015.

Amazon closed its purchase of Whole Foods Market on August 28, 2017 at $42 per share in cash, about $13.7 billion including net debt, and the grocer's headquarters stayed in Austin, Texas.

The initial solar projects planned for completion by the end of 2017 will generate up to 41 megawatts (MW) of power at Amazon facilities in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Nevada and Delaware. Depending on the specific project, time of year and other factors, a solar installation could generate as much as 80 percent of a single fulfillment facility’s annual energy needs.

Amazon confirmed on June 26, 2020 that it would buy self-driving vehicle company Zoox and run it as a separate business; the price was undisclosed, reported at over $1 billion.

Amazon closed its $8.45 billion purchase of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on March 17, 2022, adding a library of more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV episodes for Prime Video and Amazon Studios.

Amazon won rezoning in September 2023 for 869 acres at the old Birchwood power plant in King George County, Virginia, for up to 19 data centers (7.25M sq ft); the county moved to reverse it and Amazon sued in April 2025. Cleanview lists 144 MW for the first building.

Four months after presenting Blue Jay as its newest warehouse system - a single workspace where several robotic arms pick, stow and consolidate about 75% of the item types Amazon stocks - Amazon said it was no longer using it in operations, keeping only the underlying technology.

Amazon's 2025 proxy lists six executives' pay from $372,000 to $2.07M, led by CEO Jassy; no named executive received a stock award, and the CEO pay ratio is 1 to 51.

Oregon lists Sunstone as approved but not yet constructed, with up to 1,200 MW solar and 7,200 MWh storage. On June 26, 2026 the site certificate transferred to Oregon Solar 1, LLC, a wholly owned Amazon subsidiary.

Amazon Data Services filed three Pecos County data-center buildings at 6000 TX-18, each estimated at USD 300 million and 189,060 square feet. The filings list planned work from August 1 to December 1, 2026.

A third northwest Louisiana data center campus, at Resilient Technology Park in Shreveport, lifts Amazon's planned investment from $12 billion to $18 billion and its expected jobs to up to 750 across three campuses.

Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.

Amazon Data Services is permitting the first three 220,000 sq ft buildings of a campus planned for up to 16 buildings at the Port of Walla Walla's Wallula Gap Business Park; the project is reported at 4.8B USD, Amazon has not disclosed its power demand (Cleanview estimates 300 MW per phase, 1,200 MW in total), and the county found the application complete on 1 September 2026.

Amazon adds cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia, who founded Mandiant and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion, to its board of directors and its Audit and Security committees.

A week after 21 Air Flight 7598 overran a Miami runway and killed five people, Amazon said it had paused its operations with the North Carolina cargo carrier, which had flown Amazon Air packages since 2024.

Amazon pledges $20 million and launches the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, a corporate coalition with Aldi, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Ecolab and others that aims to raise $100 million for water projects across the basin in two years.

AWS became the first cloud provider approved to handle NATO RESTRICTED information for every member nation, after Spain's National Cryptographic Centre assessed it against NATO's D32 cloud directive. Allies can now run NR workloads in any AWS Region located in a NATO country.

A $1-an-hour raise lifts minimum starting pay for Amazon's U.S. full-time core operations employees to $20, with average pay nearly $24 an hour, part of a more than $1.5 billion investment in higher pay. A 10% employee grocery discount and a lifetime banking benefit come with it.

Amazon's new Fire TV Stick 4K went on sale in the US on 30 September for $59.99, moving from Android to Vega OS, which ends sideloading, with a new remote.

Amazon's 48-hour fall Prime Day sale, with Prime member-exclusive deals across more than 35 categories and new Today's Big Deals dropping three times a day. It kicks off the holiday shopping season in 22 countries.

Amazon’s Youth Promise directs 30,000 entry-level operations roles toward young UK jobseekers through 2030, alongside more than 10,000 work-experience placements. The commitment is not a claim of 40,000 net new permanent jobs.

Amazon confirmed a new devices-and-services layoff round. Reuters reports about 250 affected roles, primarily in software development; the company did not publish an exact count.

A state filing lists a November 16 start for Project Toaster’s US$100 million core-and-shell phase in Austin, with completion targeted for July 13,2027. Amazon separately projects 300–500 manufacturing and engineering jobs across the broader facility.

AWS's annual cloud and AI conference fills six Las Vegas venues from Nov 30 to Dec 4 with more than 2,200 sessions, led by CEO Matt Garman's opening keynote at The Venetian on Dec 1. For 2026 the re:Inforce security conference is part of the week.

Prime Video releases Maxton Hall - The World Between Us Season 3, the German romantic drama's final chapter, on 9 December 2026 in more than 240 countries and territories. The six-episode season adapts Mona Kasten's third book, Save Us, with Ruby suspended and her Oxford dream at risk.

Amazon says it has launched enough Leo satellites for initial service and will open its satellite broadband to consumers later in 2026, after an enterprise preview that began April 8.

The FTC and state attorneys general take Amazon to a bench trial before Judge John Chun over claims it illegally keeps its online marketplace monopoly by overcharging sellers and punishing those who offer lower prices elsewhere. The trial has slipped twice from its original October 2026 date.

Oregon’s regulator identifies Amazon subsidiary Oregon Solar 1 LLC as Sunstone’s certificate holder after a June 26, 2026 ownership amendment. The approved, not-yet-constructed project has up to 1,200 MW solar and 7,200 MWh storage; construction deadline is not COD.

Amazon Energy won the bankruptcy auction for Pine Gate Renewables' permitted 1,200 MW solar and 1,200 MW (7,200 MWh) storage project in Morrow County, Oregon, for $83 million; no total construction cost has been published and full operation was targeted for 2030.