Amazon at 30: From online bookseller to two-trillion-dollar tech giant

The company has grown into an online retail heavyweight (Paul Faith/PA)

Amazon marks its 30th anniversary on Friday as a two-trillion-dollar company, capping a remarkable rise from the online bookseller it was founded as, inside a garage in the early days of the internet.

Founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as chief executive in 2021, but he remains the executive chair and largest shareholder of a company now known as an e-commerce and cloud computing giant.