How Many Warehouses Does Amazon Have? 819.7M Sq Ft in 2025

Amazon reports 819.7 million square feet and no warehouse count

Amazon reports its network as floor area rather than a list of buildings. Its annual report on Form 10-K for 2025 lists 819.7 million square feet of facilities in operation on December 31, 2025, 741.5 million leased and 78.1 million owned. The largest category, fulfillment, data centers and other, takes up 726.4 million square feet, 88.6% of the total. The filing gives no number of buildings.

Amazon’s facilities page describes hundreds of facilities around the globe and sorts them by job, from fulfillment centers to delivery stations, without a total. MWPVL International, a supply chain consultancy that tracked the network building by building for over 16 years, says on its Amazon network page that it no longer updates the data online because of plagiarism and sells current figures as a spreadsheet. The last snapshot it dated publicly is the first quarter of 2025.

How Amazon’s filings and MWPVL count the network

The 10-K carries 2 property tables, and they do not reach the same total. The first, by use, covers every owned and leased building: 819.7 million square feet. The second splits space across Amazon’s 3 segments, North America, International and AWS, and leaves out corporate facilities, which brings it to 751.2 million. The 68.5 million square feet between them matches the office space line to the thousand square feet: 40.2 million in North America and 28.3 million abroad.

Source	Unit	What it covers	Latest figure	As of
Amazon 10-K, facilities by use	Square feet	Offices, physical stores, and fulfillment, data centers and other, owned and leased	819.7 million	Dec 31, 2025
Amazon 10-K, facilities by segment	Square feet	The same space split across North America, International and AWS, corporate facilities left out	751.2 million	Dec 31, 2025
Amazon 10-K, expense lines	Dollars	Fulfillment centers in fulfillment costs; sortation and delivery centers in shipping costs	$109.1B and $102.7B	2025
Amazon facilities page	Building types	Fulfillment, sortation, receive and specialty centers and delivery stations	No total given	2026
MWPVL International	Buildings	A building-by-building list by type, US and global	No longer updated online	Q1 2025 snapshot

Amazon’s footprint by use: fulfillment, offices and stores

Fulfillment, data centers and other dominates both regions. In North America the category covers 519.9 million square feet, 63.4% of everything Amazon operates, and internationally it covers 206.5 million.

Use and region, December 31, 2025	Leased (million sq ft)	Owned (million sq ft)	Total (million sq ft)	Share of total
Fulfillment, data centers and other, North America	474.1	45.8	519.9	63.4%
Fulfillment, data centers and other, International	185.8	20.7	206.5	25.2%
Office space, North America	31.0	9.2	40.2	4.9%
Office space, International	26.5	1.8	28.3	3.5%
Physical stores, North America	23.9	0.7	24.6	3.0%
Physical stores, International	0.1	0	0.1	under 0.1%
All facilities	741.5	78.1	819.7	100%

Physical stores take 3.0% of the space and offices 8.4%. The 10-K counts 623 stores at the end of 2025, 615 in North America and 8 elsewhere, down from 645 a year earlier as the international count fell from 27 to 8.

Ownership is rising from a low base. Amazon owned 9.5% of its footprint at the end of 2025, against 4.2% at the end of 2020, and its owned fulfillment, data center and other space grew 5.6 times over those 5 years, from 11.9 million to 66.5 million square feet. Even so, Amazon leases 91.2% of its North American fulfillment, data center and other space.

Amazon’s warehouse space by region: North America, International, AWS

The segment table is the closest the 10-K comes to a regional answer. North America, which covers Amazon’s North America-focused online and physical stores, holds 506.6 million square feet, 67.4% of the segment total. Amazon does not report the US on its own.

Segment	End of 2020 (million sq ft)	End of 2025 (million sq ft)	Change	Owned share, 2025
North America	302.7	506.6	+67.4%	5.0%
International	103.5	187.8	+81.4%	7.1%
AWS	18.1	56.8	+214.7%	50.1%
All 3 segments, corporate facilities excluded	424.2	751.2	+77.1%	8.9%

AWS grew fastest, more than tripling its space in 5 years, and it owns half of what it uses against 5.0% in North America. All of that space sits in the fulfillment, data centers and other line, which grew 80.6% over the 5 years while the retail segments’ space outside stores and offices grew 74.3%. International space grew 81.4%, ahead of North America’s 67.4%.

Amazon building types, and which ones hold inventory

Amazon’s network runs in stages, and only the first few hold stock. A fulfillment center stores inventory and picks, packs and ships orders; every building after it handles packages that are already sealed.

Building type	What it does	Typical size	Holds inventory
Receive center or inbound cross dock	Takes in large vendor shipments and allocates stock to fulfillment centers; national cross docks near ports hold seller and Amazon inventory long term (MWPVL)	Not given	Yes
Sortable fulfillment center	Picks, packs and ships smaller items such as books, toys and housewares	About 800,000 sq ft, 1,500+ full-time staff	Yes
Non-sortable fulfillment center	The same work for bulky items such as patio furniture, outdoor equipment and rugs	600,000 to 1 million sq ft, 1,000+ full-time staff	Yes
Specialty building	Handles specific item categories	Not given	Yes
Sortation center	Sorts packed orders by final destination and consolidates them onto trucks	Not given	No
Air gateway	Moves packages between regions through a central hub in Hebron, Kentucky with 25 spokes (MWPVL)	Not given	No
Delivery station	Prepares packages for last-mile routes across about a 45-mile radius (MWPVL)	60,000 to 140,000 sq ft (MWPVL)	No

Amazon’s own accounts draw the same line. Fulfillment costs, $109.1 billion in 2025, cover operating and staffing fulfillment centers, physical stores and customer service centers, plus payment processing. Costs for sortation and delivery centers sit in cost of sales as shipping costs, which came to $102.7 billion. In Amazon’s ledger the warehouse and the parcel network are 2 separate bills.

Robots work inside these buildings at scale. Amazon says it has deployed more than 1 million robots since it bought Kiva Systems in 2012, and that its Sequoia system stores inventory at fulfillment centers up to 75% faster. From the end of 2020 to the end of 2025 Amazon’s square footage grew 72.7% and its headcount 21.4%.

How Amazon’s footprint changed from 2020 to 2025

Year end	All facilities (million sq ft)	Change	Fulfillment, data centers and other (million sq ft)	Leased share	Employees
2020	474.5	n/a	402.3	95.8%	1,298,000
2021	605.4	+27.6%	525.7	94.2%	1,608,000
2022	661.4	+9.2%	574.4	93.4%	1,541,000
2023	716.3	+8.3%	627.2	92.7%	1,525,000
2024	769.4	+7.4%	680.3	91.2%	1,556,000
2025	819.7	+6.5%	726.4	90.5%	1,576,000

Amazon facilities in operation, December 31

• 2020474.5M sq ft
• 2021605.4M sq ft
• 2022661.4M sq ft
• 2023716.3M sq ft
• 2024769.4M sq ft
• 2025819.7M sq ft

Source: Amazon Form 10-K filings, fiscal 2020 to 2025, Item 2 (Properties)

2021 was the outlier. Amazon added 130.9 million square feet that year, 27.6% growth; every year since has added between 50.3 million and 56.0 million, and the growth rate has slowed each year, to 6.5% in 2025.

The 2022 to 2023 pullback shows up as slower growth, not a smaller network. MWPVL counts over 123 buildings closed, canceled or delayed over those 2 years, mostly in the US, and the 2022 10-K records about $480 million of expenses, mostly in fulfillment, for ending contracts on leases that had not started and other purchase commitments. Net square footage still rose 9.2% in 2022 and 8.3% in 2023.

Headcount took a different path. Amazon’s workforce peaked at about 1,608,000 at the end of 2021, fell to 1,525,000 by the end of 2023 and reached 1,576,000 by December 31, 2025, while space grew in every one of those years.

The lease pipeline has grown faster than any other figure here. Leases Amazon has signed but that have not yet started carry $96.4 billion of future payments, 56.4% more than a year earlier and 3.6 times the $27.0 billion at the end of 2022. The 10-K gives no split by building type, and Amazon’s leases cover fulfillment network, data center, office and store facilities as well as servers, aircraft and vehicles.

Future payments on leases signed but not yet started, December 31

• 2020$28.9B
• 2021$31.2B
• 2022$27B
• 2023$38.2B
• 2024$61.6B
• 2025$96.4B

Source: Amazon Form 10-K filings, fiscal 2020 to 2025, principal contractual commitments

What Amazon’s warehouse network means for a brand buying fulfillment

FBA storage is Amazon’s space first. The 10-K says Amazon holds other companies’ inventory under some of its agreements and tells investors that misjudging seller demand for storage can leave it unable to secure enough space. It expands the network to meet expected shipments of its own products and sellers’ orders, and sellers paid it $172.2 billion in commissions, fulfillment and shipping fees and other seller services in 2025. A brand that sells mainly on Amazon should price a fallback: a few weeks of stock at an outside warehouse that can ship cartons into Amazon’s receive network when inbound space is tight.

The bill for running those buildings has grown with them. Fulfillment costs rose from $58.5 billion in 2020 to $109.1 billion in 2025, while their share of net sales went from 15.2% to a 16.4% peak in 2022 and back to 15.2%.

Amazon fulfillment costs by year

• 2020$58.5B
• 2021$75.1B
• 2022$84.3B
• 2023$90.6B
• 2024$98.5B
• 2025$109.1B

Source: Amazon Form 10-K filings, fiscal 2020 to 2025, consolidated statements of operations

Amazon buys outside fulfillment too. Selling its network through Fulfillment by Amazon makes it a 3PL for the sellers who use it, yet the 10-K lists co-sourced and outsourced arrangements in certain countries and names its own use of third-party fulfillment services as a driver of fulfillment cost. MWPVL’s list of US fulfillment center types includes 3PL outsourced facilities.

Bulky products get their own buildings. Amazon runs non-sortable fulfillment centers of 600,000 to 1 million square feet for items such as patio furniture and rugs and, by MWPVL’s account, has run a separate delivery station network since 2017 for 60 to 300 lb items that need white glove service. A brand with oversized SKUs should ask a 3PL the question Amazon answered with real estate: do large items run on the normal pick line or a separate one, and which carrier takes them for the last mile?

The parcel leg is where Amazon’s network and a 3PL warehouse differ most. Amazon’s $102.7 billion of 2025 shipping costs include its sortation centers and delivery stations. A brand outside FBA buys the 2 layers separately: storage and picking from an independent 3PL, and the parcel leg from whichever carriers that warehouse ships with. A single building cannot spread stock close to every buyer the way Amazon’s receive centers spread it across fulfillment centers, so ask each 3PL for its daily carrier pickup time and a zone map of ground transit days from the building that would hold your stock.