Its offer cost has really expanded since March - hitting a record high a week ago.
It turns out online retail is anything but a terrible space to be in when all the shops are closed. Jeff Bezos' mantle as the most extravagant man on earth appears to be protected, for the time being.
In any case, the world over, governments are taking a gander at Amazon and asking whether the tech goliath is - well - too enormous.
Does it utilize its prevailing position unreasonably?
The EU presently looks set to charge Amazon for hostile to serious conduct. This could cost Amazon a ton of cash and could change the shopping experience it offers clients.
What's going on with the EU?
Fundamental to the EU's interests is Amazon's double job.
It runs an online store and furthermore sells its own items on that stage. The analysis is, that it's both the player and the official.
Addressing the BBC a year ago, the EU's opposition authority Margrethe Vestager stated: "We never acknowledge in a football coordinate that one group was likewise making a decision about the game".
What may Amazon be accused of?
A significant part of the EU's interests are thought to base on the information that Amazon approaches and how it utilizes it. It can see delicate business data on outsider items - like volume and cost.
The unavoidable issue is - is the organization utilizing that information to give Amazon's own items an out of line advantage?
For instance, The Wall Street Journal hosts detailed that Amazon got to third-gathering merchant information to build up its own items.
As it were, Amazon comprehends what sells well on its foundation - and can then just imitate what sells best.
There are different allegations as well.
In the event that you purchase an item on Amazon, you'll get other comparative items proposed to you in a spring up called a 'Purchase Box'.
In case you're in the matter of selling stuff, having your item on Amazon's Buy Box is - to say the least - something worth being thankful for.
Be that as it may, does Amazon unjustifiably advance its own items to the detriment of outsiders? The EU is sniffing around this zone.
Why Amazon knows such a great amount about you
Amazon Marketplace to be researched by the EU
EU 'investigating' Amazon's utilization of information
What does Amazon say?
The general safeguard is that there are a lot of organizations that go about as both a shop and provider. Tesco and Sainsbury's both sell their own marked items in their stores, for instance.
They likewise contend that - a long way from being against serious - private-name items are useful for clients and offer progressively decision.
Amazon told the BBC: "We carefully restrict our workers from utilizing non-open, vender explicit information to figure out which private name items to dispatch".
The organization likewise needed to bring up that it as of now distributes information on how well a few items sell on the web (simply go to the 'Movers and Shakers' segment of the site).
By what means will this influence you?
Pundits of Amazon accept this is a second that will define the limits of what is lawfully adequate in the online commercial center.
In any case, it's as yet not thoroughly clear - regardless of whether Amazon were to be fined - how this would influence Amazon's business mode or shopping on the web all the more by and large.
Augustin Reyna, from the European Consumer Organization, told the BBC: "The inquiry is more, in the medium-to-long haul, if Amazon were permitted to proceed with these works on, solidifying its market position, it is ready to confine decision and push up costs."
What next?
A charge sheet could be distributed when this week.
In any case, the EU Commission is hush-hush - it will at present just state that the examination is "continuous".
In principle Amazon could be fined 10% of its worldwide income whenever saw as liable of breaking rivalry law - about £15bn ($19bn).
In any event, for Amazon that would be an eye-watering aggregate.
In any case, don't anticipate that this should occur incidentally. It's impossible we'll get a decision until one year from now at the most punctual. Furthermore, regardless of whether Amazon is fined, it can - and more likely than not would - bid.
Would amazon be able to unwind?
All things considered, no. Different nations have looked into the EU's strong way to deal with enormous tech.
In 2017 for instance, the EU fined Google £2.1 billion for purportedly covering Google looks for rivals.
As opposed to being enchanted, allured even by the tech titans, the EU has been unmistakably neutral with a portion of their conduct.
Also, this is focusing on. Throughout the end of the week it was accounted for that authorities in California and Washington are additionally looking into Amazon's strategic approaches regarding outsider dealers.
A string of other enemy of rivalry examinations are additionally being completed in the US taking a gander at Amazon and the other large tech firms, as Facebook and Google.
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