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Amazon rainforest

Amazon rainforest: world's largest tropical forest, spanning nine countries/territories, ~390 billion trees, 150–200 billion tons carbon. Deforestation hit 3,335 km² in 2026, lowest since 1988; tipping-point debate centers on 20–25% deforestation and 2–6 °C warming.

Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed Amazon Web Services service that creates and operates relational databases in the cloud, handling backups, patching, and recovery.

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift (AWS Redshift) is a fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse from Amazon Web Services, launched in 2012, that uses columnar storage and PostgreSQL-based SQL.

Amazon River

The Amazon River, Rio Amazonas, is Earth's largest river by discharge, draining a roughly 7 million km2 basin across nine South American countries; its source is disputed, and drought, dams, and deforestation now stress it.

Amazon river dolphin

Amazon river dolphin (boto, Inia geoffrensis), a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon and Orinoco basins in six South American countries; pink-colored, threatened by bycatch, dams, and mercury from gold mining.

Amazon Robotics

Amazon Robotics, formerly Kiva Systems, is Amazon's robotics subsidiary making warehouse robots for its fulfillment centers. It was acquired in 2012 for about $775 million.

Oct 22, 2026

Amazon rubber boom

The Amazon rubber boom, known in Portuguese as the Ciclo da Borracha, was a period of economic expansion in the Amazon basin from roughly 1870 to 1912, driven by wild rubber extraction.

Oct 22, 2026

Amazon rubber boom in Peru

The Amazon rubber boom in Peru was a period of rapid wild-rubber extraction from about 1880 until the 1910s, centered on Iquitos and resting on forced Indigenous labor.

Amazon Rufus

Amazon Rufus was a generative AI shopping assistant built into Amazon's app and website, launched in beta in February 2024 and rebranded as Alexa for Shopping in 2026.

Amazon S3

Amazon S3, also known as Amazon Simple Storage Service, is an object storage service from Amazon Web Services, launched in 2006 as the first generally available AWS service.

Oct 26, 2026

Amazon S3 API

Amazon S3 API: the REST web service interface of Amazon Simple Storage Service, version 2006-03-01, launched March 2006; now the de facto object storage standard reimplemented by Google, IBM, Oracle, Cloudflare R2, and others.

Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning service from Amazon Web Services, launched in 2017, that lets data scientists build, train, and deploy models at any scale.

Oct 26, 2026

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, also called AWS Ground Truth, is a data labeling service launched November 28, 2018 for building ML training datasets with MTurk, vendor, or private workforces, plus active-learning automated labeling; closed to new customers July 30, 2026.

Oct 26, 2026

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is AWS's single data and AI development environment, announced in preview at re:Invent December 2024 and generally available March 13, 2025, unifying EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Bedrock, and SageMaker AI tooling in governed projects.

Amazon Standard Identification Number

ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) is Amazon's 10-character alphanumeric unique identifier for each catalog item; book ASINs reuse the 10-digit ISBN, non-book ASINs start with B0, and it is valid only within Amazon.

Amazon Trainium

AWS Trainium is Amazon's AI accelerator chip for training machine learning models, designed by Annapurna Labs and offered as a lower-cost alternative to NVIDIA GPUs.

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services, known as AWS, is Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary, launched in 2006 with S3 and EC2, offering over 200 services from data centers worldwide.

Amazon Wind Farm US East

Amazon Wind Farm US East, also known as Desert Wind, is a 208 MW wind farm in northeastern North Carolina operated by Avangrid Renewables for Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Women on the Moon

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) is an American sketch-comedy anthology, a sequel of sorts to The Kentucky Fried Movie, directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, and Robert K. Weiss, parodying 1950s sci-fi and late-night TV in 85 minutes.

Amazon–Anthropic investment and Project Rainier

Amazon's investment in Anthropic and Project Rainier describe Amazon's $13 billion stake in the AI lab Anthropic and the Indiana Trainium compute cluster built to train and serve Claude.

Amazona

Amazona (Amazon parrots) is a Neotropical parrot genus, Lesson 1830, Psittacidae, with 27–31 species from Mexico to Argentina and the Caribbean; not monophyletic with Amazona xanthops, largely threatened, English names now 'Amazon'.

Oct 20, 2026

Amazona viridigenalis

Amazona viridigenalis, the red-crowned amazon or loro tamaulipeco, is an endangered green parrot endemic to northeastern Mexico, threatened by habitat loss and pet-trade capture, with naturalized urban populations in California, Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico.

Amazonas (Brazilian state)

Amazonas (Brazilian state), capital Manaus, demonym amazonense, IBGE code 13: Brazil's largest state at 1,558,704.331 km² with 3,941,613 people (2022 census), density 2.53/km², largest indigenous population, part of the Legal Amazon, hit by the record 2023 drought.

Amazonas Estuary & Coastal Drainages

Amazonas Estuary & Coastal Drainages, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 323 in Brazil, covers the Amazon estuary and coastal rivers from Itapicuru to Caciporé; 180,000 m3/s discharge, 23 endemic fishes, and the Araguari channel capture.

Amazonas Guiana Shield

Amazonas Guiana Shield (FEOW ecoregion 315): freshwater ecoregion on the southern Guiana Shield in Brazil, Guyana, and Suriname; clearwater rivers Jari, Paru, Trombetas, upper Rio Branco; about 430 fish species, nearly 40 endemic; threatened by gold mining and mercury.