Where is Amazon headquartered?

Amazon is headquartered at 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, in the South Lake Union district. The campus — including landmarks like The Spheres — houses tens of thousands of corporate and AWS employees and is the company's center of gravity.

Seattle has been home since Bezos relocated from the Bay Area in 1994, partly to be near book-distribution infrastructure and a strong technical talent pool. It remains Amazon's largest single concentration of corporate headcount.

Amazon's second headquarters, HQ2, is in Arlington, Virginia (National Landing/Crystal City area). Phase I (Metropolitan Park, two 22-story towers with capacity for ~14,000 employees) opened in June 2023, but Amazon paused Phase II construction amid layoffs and secured a county extension to June 2028 — so HQ2 is real and occupied but smaller than originally planned. Beyond the two headquarters, Amazon runs corporate and engineering offices in cities such as New York, Austin, Boston, the Bay Area, Vancouver, London, Dublin, and Bangalore.

Underpinning all of it is a vast physical footprint: AWS data-center regions across the globe and hundreds of fulfillment centers, sortation sites, and delivery stations that power its logistics network.

For go-to-market planning, the two anchor markets are Seattle (Pacific time) and Arlington/DC (Eastern time) — that's where the largest concentrations of corporate and AWS decision-makers cluster, and where field events, executive briefings, and ABM will reach the most buyers. Note that HQ2 Phase II is paused, so the Arlington population is capped near Phase I levels for now.

Secondary tech hubs like New York, Austin, the Bay Area, and Bangalore host significant engineering and product populations worth targeting for technical champions. Fulfillment-center towns are operations-heavy, not buying centers, so concentrate enterprise selling on the corporate hubs rather than the logistics footprint.