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Amazing Red

Amazing Red (Jonathan Figueroa, born 1982, Cayey, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican high-flying wrestler of TNA, ROH, and House of Glory fame, inventor of the Code Red, TNA Hall of Famer 2026.

Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Death Spiral

Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Death Spiral is a 2026 Marvel Comics crossover by Al Ewing, Joe Kelly, and Charles Soule, running February to April 2026, in which Spider-Man, MJ-as-Venom, and Eddie Brock's Carnage face the serial killer Torment, ending with Peter Parker becoming Spider-Carnage.

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories, American science fiction magazine founded by Hugo Gernsback in April 1926 as the first magazine devoted exclusively to the genre, originally "scientifiction", later edited by Sloane, Palmer, and Ted White, and revived online.

Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)

Amazing Stories (1985 TV series): NBC anthology created by Steven Spielberg, also credited to Joshua Brand and John Falsey; ran 1985–1987, 45 episodes, $44 million, John Williams theme, Emmy for John Lithgow, later Apple TV+ revival.

Amazing Stories (2020 TV series)

Amazing Stories (2020) is an Apple TV+ anthology series, a five-episode reimagining of Steven Spielberg's 1985 NBC series, showrun by Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, premiering March 6, 2020 and not renewed.

Amazo

Amazo is a DC Comics android created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky, debuting in The Brave and the Bold #30 (1960). Built by Professor Ivo with absorption cells, he replicates the powers of any metahuman he meets, making him a recurring Justice League foe distinct from Marvel's Super-Adaptoid.

Amazon

The Amazon: Earth's largest rainforest and river basin (~7 million km²), spanning Brazil and neighbors; known for flying-rainfall recycling, satellite-tracked deforestation, fire, and tipping-point risk.

Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American technology and retail company selling goods online, running the world's leading cloud service AWS, and delivering more US parcels than any other carrier.

Amazon (river, Brazil)

Amazon River (Rio Amazonas), South America's largest river: 209,000 m³/s mean discharge, ~7.05 million km² basin, ~20% of global freshwater runoff; source disputed (Apurímac/Mismi vs Mantaro); severe 2023–2024 droughts set record lows.

Amazon AGI (Amazon's model efforts)

Amazon AGI is the Amazon team and organization behind the Nova foundation models, consolidated under Peter DeSantis in December 2025 and scaled back in July 2026.

Amazon Air

Amazon Air is the cargo airline of Amazon, launched in 2016 to move packages between fulfillment centers; it operates 100+ contracted aircraft with its main hub in Cincinnati.

Amazon Alexa

Amazon Alexa, also known as the Alexa voice assistant, is Amazon's cloud-based virtual assistant launched with the Echo speaker in 2014, used for music, shopping, and smart-home control.

Amazon Appstore

Amazon Appstore: Amazon's Android app store, opened March 22, 2011, in nearly 200 countries; exclusive store on Fire tablets and Fire TV, Windows 11 storefront until March 2025, Android access ended August 20, 2025.

Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is AWS's serverless interactive query service for analyzing Amazon S3 data with standard SQL, built on Trino (engine v3, formerly Presto), billed at $5 per TB scanned, with Glue Catalog, federated queries, and Spark support.

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service from Amazon Web Services, with MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible engines running on custom distributed storage for up to 6x throughput.

Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is Earth's largest drainage basin, over 7 million km² across nine South American countries, discharging about 209,000 m³/s (roughly 20% of global river flow) and formed by late Miocene river capture.

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock, also known as AWS Bedrock, is a fully managed Amazon Web Services service that provides single-API access to foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, Amazon, and others since 2023.

Amazon Berkeley Objects

Amazon Berkeley Objects (ABO) is a large, openly licensed dataset of Amazon product listings, images, metadata, and artist-created 3D models, released in 2021 by Amazon and UC Berkeley researchers.

Amazon Braket

Amazon Braket is a fully managed quantum computing service from Amazon Web Services, launched in 2020, offering simulators and quantum processors from providers like IonQ and Rigetti.

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA), an annual Amazon contest 2007-2014 for unpublished English-language novels, judged through pitch, excerpt, and full-manuscript rounds; winners published by Penguin then Amazon Publishing, ending in favor of Kindle Scout.

Amazon Business

Amazon Business is the business-to-business marketplace of Amazon.com, launched in the United States in 2015, serving over 11 million organizations and reaching $60 billion in annualized gross sales by 2026.

Amazon Chess

Amazon Chess, also called Amazon for Queen, is a chess variant on a standard 8x8 board where each queen is replaced by an Amazon, a queen-plus-knight fairy piece; all other chess rules, castling, en passant, and checkmate, are unchanged.

Amazon DataZone

Amazon DataZone is AWS's fully managed data management service for cataloging, discovering, sharing, and governing data across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources. Announced November 2022, generally available October 4, 2023; since June 2025 its domains upgrade into Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (domainVersion V1 to V2).

Amazon Delta

Amazon Delta: coastal region at the Amazon River mouth, Brazil; the world's largest delta by geomorphic area (84,429 km²) yet lacking a protruding delta form, with up to 1,200 Mt/y sediment discharge, macrotidal conditions over 6 m, and a subaqueous shelf clinoform.

Amazon dieback

Amazon dieback is the projected large-scale conversion of Amazon rainforest to drier, savanna-like vegetation under climate change, deforestation, and fire, first modeled by the Hadley Centre's HadCM3LC in 2000.

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB, also known as DynamoDB, is a fully managed serverless NoSQL database from Amazon Web Services, launched in 2012 and known for single-digit-millisecond latency at any scale.

Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo is a line of voice-controlled smart speakers and smart displays made by Amazon, first announced in 2014 and built around the Alexa voice assistant.

Amazon Echo Show

The Amazon Echo Show is a line of Amazon smart displays combining an Echo speaker, the Alexa voice assistant, and a touchscreen, first introduced in May 2017.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2, is an Amazon Web Services service launched in 2006 that provides resizable virtual servers billed by usage.

Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR, formerly Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is AWS's managed big data cluster platform launched in 2009 for Hadoop, Spark, Hive, and Trino. It offers EC2, EKS, and Serverless deployments, per-second pricing, and versioned releases with support lifecycle stages.