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How ethical is Amazon Web Services? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s cloud computing arm.  AWS owns about a third of the entire cloud market. Amazon has been widely criticised for its practices, including its tax avoidance. 

Amazon is known for its shameless tax avoidance, workers’ rights abuses, environmental impacts and much more. The company has been the subject of an Ethical Consumer global boycott call since 2012. We’ve summarised the key ethical issues to consider when it comes to Amazon.

Ethical Consumer has been campaigning for a boycott of Amazon since 2012, particularly because of Amazon's tax avoidance. But the list of reasons to avoid Amazon extends beyond tax, and includes its services to fossil fuel giants, workers' rights abuses, greenwashing and harmful environmental practices.

With Amazon’s growth apparently unstoppable, are there any regulators out there trying to prevent its systematic tax avoidance from further distorting UK markets?

If you are looking to reduce your use of Amazon, we've got your covered. We share our favourite ethical alternatives to Amazon – including the most ethical and eco-friendly places to shop.

Take a break from Amazon.com and sign up to our Amazon Free Pledge.

Amazon vouchers are an easy stocking filler at Christmas, and a popular reward at work. We explore what you can do if you want to give someone a gift card but would like to avoid Amazon. 

Merle Büter looks at anti-Amazon activities in Germany.

Can ethical businesses always act like ethical shoppers when it comes to Amazon? In his latest Inside View article, Simon Birch unpicks this complex issue.  

Communities, workers and activists are campaigning against Amazon over its tax avoidance, and abuse of human rights and the environment.  

From ongoing abuses of its workers to aggressive tax avoidance, we list ten reasons to avoid Amazon.

Amazon and eBay are among the largest and best-known online marketplaces in the UK – selling everything from inflatable jacuzzis to secondhand baby clothes.  So how do the ethics of Amazon and eBay compare when it comes to climate change, tax avoidance and more?  

Athena, a new alliance of organisations based in the US, is campaigning against Amazon. The coalition brings together activists, advocates, policy experts and academics.

Amazon has worked hard in recent years to green its image. But the online giant is responsible for huge emissions and resource use. We outline its top five greenwashing tactics.  

Tax avoider eats American whole food chain 

As fires continue to rage across the Amazon, Josie Wexler looks at companies that are implicated.

In case you weren’t angry enough about Amazon’s systemic tax avoidance, this article is the first in a series where we talk about some of Amazon’s unsustainable and environmentally-damaging practices.

Greenwashing is the misleading practice of advertising environmentally-sound campaigns, practices and products that are in contradiction with a company’s more general environmental record. Emma Kerrison explores what greenwashing looks like in the technology industry, and investigates whether the recent climate pledges of tech giants Amazon and…

In a stark interview between an Amazon worker and Yalda Keshavarzi, the working conditions at Amazon fulfilment centres are exposed.  Black Friday mania intensifies these well-documented issues, which range from excessive targets, surveillance and profit as the prime driver.

Amazon has long been infamous for its poor working conditions and denial of union rights. Christy Hoffman, General Secretary of UNI Global Union and Sharon Graham Unite Executive Officer, explain Amazon’s aggressive union-busting tactics and the campaign in the UK to give workers their right to a seat at the table.