Throughout this growth, we remained focused on improving our efficiency through more-sustainable solutions, including electric vehicles and alternative fuel options as well as wind and solar power across our network. These developments meant we had to build new facilities-for both our consumer and cloud businesses-and expand our transportation network. At the same time, an increasing number of companies around the world moved their technology to the cloud, gaining significant speed, innovation, and cost advantages, and AWS grew its revenue by 37% year-over-year in 2021.

From early 2020 to the end of 2021, we created more than 750,000 full-time and part-time jobs worldwide and doubled the size of the fulfillment network that we had built over the previous 25 years.

We have scaled our business at an unprecedented pace to help meet the needs of our customers through the pandemic. In reducing their carbon footprint through investment and innovation, we will enable even greater efficiency and more-sustainable choices for our customers.Īs we work to decarbonize our company, Amazon is growing rapidly. While some of these businesses-including cloud computing and e-commerce-offer greater efficiencies, some are more carbon-intensive endeavors. We operate businesses-delivery and transportation logistics, physical stores, grocery, manufacturing, and cloud computing services-that involve moving products, manufacturing goods, and creating computing capacity, all at scale. This is especially true for a business of the size and broad scope of Amazon. The path to decarbonization remains challenging. Since we created the Pledge in 2019, more than 300 companies have joined Amazon in making this commitment. That’s why we co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040-10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Climate change is one of the world’s greatest crises, and to address it, the public and private sectors need to act together.

New offset drivers for 2018