BOARDOFDIRECTORSINFORMATION BOARDOFDIRECTORSINFORMATION In evaluating the nominees for the Board of Directors, the Board and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee took into account the qualities they seek for directors, and the directors’ individual qualifications, skills, and background that enable the directors to effectively and productively contribute to the Board’s oversight of Amazon, as discussed below in each biography and under “Director Nominee Diversity, Tenure, Skills, and Characteristics.” When evaluating re- nomination of existing directors, the Committee also considers the nominees’ past and ongoing effectiveness on the Board and, with the exception of Mr. Bezos and Mr. Jassy, who are employees, their independence. Biographical Information Background Mr. Bezos has been Chair of the Board since founding the Company in 1994. Prior to becomingExecutive Chair in July 2021, he served as Chief Executive Officer from May1996toJuly2021andasPresidentfromfoundinguntilJune1999andagainfrom October 2000 to July 2021. Qualifications and Skills Mr. Bezos’s individual qualifications and skills as a director include his customer-focused point of view, his willingness to encourage invention, his long-term perspective, and his ongoing contributions as founder and Executive Chair. Jeffrey P. Bezos Mr. Bezos serves as Executive Chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, which he founded with a FounderandExecutiveChairof commitmentof$10billiontobedisbursedasgrantswithinthecurrentdecadetofight Amazon climate change and protect nature. Mr. Bezos also founded the Bezos Day One Fund, a $2billion commitment to focus on making meaningful and lasting impacts in two areas: funding existing non-profits that help families experiencing homelessness and creating a network of new, non-profit tier-one preschools in low-income communities. Finally, Mr. Bezos founded Blue Origin with the vision of enabling a future where millions of people are living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, and owns The WashingtonPost, a major U.S. newspaper dedicated to the principles of a free press and winner of 69 Pulitzer Prizes. Age: Director since: Boardcommittees: Othercurrentpubliccompanyboards: 58 July 1994 None None 2022ProxyStatement 3