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``Alexa Site Thumbnail'' Web Service from Alexa Internet Now Available for Developers; New web service allows software and web developers to incorporate thumbnail images of web site home pages directly into their applications


    Alexa Internet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon.com,
    Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today launched the Alexa Site Thumbnail web
    service. For years Alexa has been crawling more than 18 million web
    sites collecting home page images along with a vast amount of other
    information about the web. Now, using the Alexa Site Thumbnail web
    service, software and web developers can obtain programmatic access to
    URLs for these images in Alexa's collection, which they can use to
    incorporate thumbnail images of web site home pages into their own
    applications. Developers can sign up and get started using the Alexa
    Site Thumbnail web service today at the Amazon Web Services web site
    http://aws.amazon.com/ast. The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service is
    sold through Amazon Web Services LLC.
    "Developers are constantly looking for ways to make their websites
    more visually appealing and to save their users time," said Alexa Vice
    President of Engineering Niall O'Driscoll. "In just minutes and
    inexpensively, developers can use the new Alexa Site Thumbnail web
    service to achieve both these goals."
    The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service enables developers to enhance
    web sites, search results, web directories, blog entries, and other
    web real estate with images of web site home pages that Alexa has
    collected from crawling the web. Including web site thumbnail images
    improves the user experience by allowing end users to preview sites
    before clicking through to the web site.
    Alexa has millions of images available and is adding more daily.
    The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service allows developers to customize
    the size and format in which Alexa's thumbnail images can be displayed
    in their own applications. There is no minimum fee or start-up cost to
    use the Alexa Site Thumbnail web service.

    About Alexa Internet

    Founded in April 1996 by Bruce Gilliat and acquired by Amazon.com
    in 1999, Alexa Internet provides dynamic data about the Web. Alexa's
    services include Web site traffic information, statistics, and other
    tools to make timely and intelligent business and consumer decisions.

    About Amazon Web Services LLC

    Launched in July 2002, Amazon Web Services exposes technology and
    product data from Amazon and its affiliates that enable developers to
    build innovative and entrepreneurial applications on their own. More
    than 180,000 developers have signed up to use Amazon Web Services
    since its inception. Amazon Web Services recently launched the
    Solutions Catalog where developers can list the businesses,
    applications, and solutions they have built using Amazon Web Services.
    The catalog is available at http://solutions.amazonwebservices.com.
    Amazon Web Services LLC is an Amazon.com company.

    About Amazon.com

    Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in
    Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers
    Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com seeks to be Earth's most
    customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover
    anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its
    customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers
    offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories
    such as health and personal care, jewelry and watches, gourmet food,
    sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs,
    electronics and office, toys and baby, and home and garden.
    Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including
    www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp,
    www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and www.joyo.com.
    As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms
    include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context
    indicates otherwise.

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    31, 2005, and all subsequent filings.