Officers Certificate of Amazon.com, Inc., dated as of December 1, 2022

EX-4.1 3 d376136dex41.htm EX-4.1 EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

Execution Version

AMAZON.COM, INC.

OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATE ESTABLISHING THE TERMS OF NOTES

December 1, 2022

We, Antonio Masone and Michael D. Deal, the Vice President and Treasurer and the Vice President & Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of Amazon.com, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), do hereby certify in the name of and on behalf of the Company as follows:

1. The Underwriting Agreement, dated November 29, 2022, among the Company and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., and SG Americas Securities, LLC, as managers of the several underwriters named in Schedule II therein, in the form executed by Antonio Masone and the transactions contemplated thereby are hereby approved and ratified in all respects.

2. The Prospectus of the Company dated June 1, 2020, as supplemented by the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated November 29, 2022, the Free Writing Prospectus dated November 29, 2022 and the Final Prospectus Supplement dated November 29, 2022, and the offering of securities contemplated thereby, is hereby approved and ratified in all respects.

3. With reference to the Indenture entered into pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as indenture trustee (the “Prior Trustee”) dated as of November 29, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 1 dated as of April 13, 2022 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Prior Trustee, as prior trustee, and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, as successor trustee (the “Trustee”), this Officers’ Certificate hereby establishes the terms of each series of Notes (as defined below) pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture (this “Officers’ Certificate”). The undersigned have read the provisions of the Indenture relating to the establishment of the series of securities to be authenticated and delivered thereunder, including Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 10.3, and 10.4 of the Base Indenture and the definitions related thereto, as well as such other documents as they have deemed necessary or appropriate, and otherwise made such examination or investigation as is necessary, to enable them to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Officers’ Certificate are used as defined in the Indenture.

4. The review of such provisions was undertaken in order to permit the undersigned to certify whether all conditions precedent (including any covenants, compliance with which constitute conditions precedent) provided for in the Indenture, for the establishment of the Notes as five separate series of securities, the form and terms of which are set forth below, and the authentication and delivery thereof have been complied with.

5. Accordingly, in the opinion of the undersigned, all conditions precedent under the Indenture to the execution, authentication, and the delivery of the Securities have been complied with.

 


6. There is hereby established the following series of securities of the Company for issuance under the Indenture as follows:

 

  (a)

The titles of such series of Securities shall be the “4.700% Notes due 2024” (the “2024 Notes”), the “4.600% Notes due 2025” (the “2025 Notes”), the “4.550% Notes due 2027” (the “2027 Notes”), the “4.650% Notes due 2029” (the “2029 Notes”), and the “4.700% Notes due 2032” (the “2032 Notes” and, together with the 2024 Notes, the 2025 Notes, the 2027 Notes, and the 2029 Notes, the “Notes”).

 

  (b)

The aggregate principal amount of the Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture shall be $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2024 Notes, $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes, $2,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes, $1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2029 Notes, and $2,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2032 Notes (except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Sections 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6, and 9.6 of the Base Indenture).

 

  (c)

The principal amount of the outstanding 2024 Notes shall be payable on November 29, 2024 (the “2024 Stated Maturity”), 2025 Notes shall be payable on December 1, 2025 (the “2025 Stated Maturity”), 2027 Notes shall be payable on December 1, 2027 (the “2027 Stated Maturity”), 2029 Notes shall be payable on December 1, 2029 (the “2029 Stated Maturity”), and 2032 Notes shall be payable on December 1, 2032 (the “2032 Stated Maturity,” and, together with the 2024 Stated Maturity, the 2025 Stated Maturity, the 2027 Stated Maturity, and the 2029 Stated Maturity, the “Stated Maturities”).

 

  (d)

The 2024 Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 4.700% per annum, the 2025 Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 4.600% per annum, the 2027 Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 4.550% per annum, the 2029 Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 4.650% per annum, and the 2032 Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 4.700% per annum.

 

  (e)

Interest on the Notes issued on the date hereof shall accrue from December 1, 2022. Interest on the 2024 Notes shall be payable semi-annually in arrears each May 29 and November 29 (the “2024 Interest Payment Date”), beginning on May 29, 2023 to the holders of record as of the close of business on each May 14 and November 14, as the case may be, next preceding the relevant 2024 Interest Payment Date, except that the Company will pay interest at the 2024 Stated Maturity to the person or persons to whom principal is payable. Interest on the 2025 Notes, the 2027 Notes, the 2029 Notes, and the 2032 Notes shall be payable semi-annually in arrears each June 1 and December 1 (together with the 2024 Interest Payment Date, each, an “Interest Payment Date”), beginning on

 

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  June 1, 2023 to the holders of record as of the close of business on each May 17 and November 16, as the case may be, next preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date of such series of Notes, except that the Company will pay interest at the Stated Maturity of the 2025 Notes, the 2027 Notes, the 2029 Notes, and the 2032 Notes to the person or persons to whom principal is payable. Interest on the Notes will be paid on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

If any day on which interest is payable on the Notes is not a Business Day, the payment of the interest payable on that date will be made on the next date that is a Business Day, without any interest or other payment in respect of the delay, with the same force and effect as if made on the scheduled payment date.

 

  (f)

The place or places where the principal of and interest on the Notes shall be payable, where they may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Company may be served in respect of the Notes and the Indenture shall be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, or at any other place as the Company may designate.

 

  (g)

Any series of the Notes may be redeemed in whole at any time or in part from time to time prior to the applicable Par Call Date (as defined herein) (or, in the case of the 2024 Notes and the 2025 Notes, at any time prior to the 2024 Stated Maturity and the 2025 Stated Maturity, respectively) at the Company’s option (the date of such redemption, the “Make-Whole Redemption Date”), at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of: (i) (A) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Make-Whole Redemption Date (assuming, in the case of the 2027 Notes, the 2029 Notes, and the 2032 Notes, such notes matured on the applicable Par Call Date or, in the case of the 2024 Notes and the 2025 Notes, such notes matured on the 2024 Stated Maturity and the 2025 Stated Maturity, respectively) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined herein) plus 5.0 basis points in the case of the 2024 Notes, plus 10.0 basis points in the case of the 2025 Notes, plus 10.0 basis points in the case of the 2027 Notes, plus 15.0 basis points in the case of the 2029 Notes, and plus 15.0 basis points in the case of the 2032 Notes, less (B) interest accrued and unpaid thereon to the applicable Make-Whole Redemption Date, and (ii) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of the applicable series to be redeemed, plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the applicable Make-Whole Redemption Date.

 

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On or after the applicable Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the 2027 Notes, the 2029 Notes, and the 2032 Notes, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption (such date, and any Make-Whole Redemption Date, a “Redemption Date”). The Company shall be responsible for calculating the applicable redemption price.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due and payable on Interest Payment Dates falling on or prior to a Redemption Date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant record date according to the Notes and the Indenture.

If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the series of Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before the Redemption Date, then on and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on such Notes (or such portion thereof) called for redemption and such Notes will cease to be outstanding. If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Company will pay the redemption price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

If fewer than all of the Notes of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Notes of such series to be redeemed pro rata by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems appropriate and fair. For so long as the Notes are held in the form of Global Securities, the redemption of the Notes shall be in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange. Notes of $2,000 principal amount or less will not be redeemed in part. If any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to such Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note.

Notice of any redemption shall be electronically delivered or mailed in accordance with Section 10.1 of the Base Indenture at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed. Such notice shall state the redemption price (if known) or the formula pursuant to which the redemption price is to be determined if the redemption price cannot be determined at the time the notice is given. If the redemption price cannot be determined at the time such notice is to be given, the actual redemption price, calculated as set forth in this Officers’ Certificate, shall be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate of the Company delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date. Notice of redemption having been given as provided in the Indenture, the Notes called for redemption shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the applicable redemption price.

 

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Notice of any redemption of the Notes of a series in connection with a transaction or an event may, at the Company’s discretion, be given prior to the completion or the occurrence thereof. Any redemption or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion or occurrence of a related transaction or event. At the Company’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date as so delayed. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of the Notes subject to such redemption notice in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

Par Call Date” means, in the case of the 2027 Notes, November 1, 2027 (the date that is one month prior to the 2027 Stated Maturity), in the case of the 2029 Notes, October 1, 2029 (the date that is two months prior to the 2029 Stated Maturity), and in the case of the 2032 Notes, September 1, 2032 (the date that is three months prior to the 2032 Stated Maturity).

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Make-Whole Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the applicable Make-Whole Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the applicable Make-Whole Redemption Date to the applicable Par Call Date (or, in the case of the 2024 Notes and the 2025 Notes, at any time prior to the 2024 Stated Maturity and the 2025 Stated Maturity, respectively) (the “Remaining

 

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Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the applicable Par Call Date (or, in the case of the 2024 Notes and the 2025 Notes, to the 2024 Stated Maturity and the 2025 Stated Maturity, respectively) on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the applicable Make-Whole Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the applicable Make-Whole Redemption Date H.15 or any successor designation or publication is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Make-Whole Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the applicable Par Call Date or Stated Maturity, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the applicable Par Call Date or Stated Maturity but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the applicable Par Call Date or Stated Maturity, one with a maturity date preceding the applicable Par Call Date or Stated Maturity and one with a maturity date following the applicable Par Call Date or Stated Maturity, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the applicable Par Call Date or Stated Maturity. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the applicable Par Call Date or Stated Maturity or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

 

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The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

 

  (h)

The Notes shall be issuable in minimum denominations of $2,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

  (i)

The Notes shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities.

 

  (j)

The Depositary shall be The Depository Trust Company.

 

  (k)

The amount of payments of principal or interest shall not be determined with reference to an index, formula, or other similar method.

 

  (l)

The provisions of Section 8.1 of the Base Indenture shall apply to the Notes.

 

  (m)

The Notes shall be Unrestricted Securities and shall be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

  (n)

The principal of and interest on the Notes shall be payable only in Dollars.

 

  (o)

The Notes shall not be convertible into common stock of the Company.

 

  (p)

The terms of the 2024 Notes, the 2025 Notes, the 2027 Notes, the 2029 Notes, and the 2032 Notes shall include such other terms as set forth in the form of 2024 Note, form of 2025 Note, form of 2027 Note, form of 2029 Note, and form of 2032 Note, respectively, attached hereto as Exhibits A, B, C, D, and E.

7. This Officers’ Certificate and any other documents delivered in connection with this transaction shall be valid, binding, and enforceable against a party only when executed and delivered by an authorized individual on behalf of the party by means of (i) any electronic signature permitted by the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, state enactments of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and/or any other relevant electronic signatures law; (ii) an original manual signature; or (iii) a scanned manual signature. Each electronic signature or scanned manual signature shall for all purposes have the same validity, legal effect, and admissibility in evidence as an original manual signature. Each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon and shall have no liability with respect to a scanned or other electronic signature of any party and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm, or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof. This Officers’ Certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but such counterparts shall, together, constitute one and the same instrument.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Certificate as of the date first written above.

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.
By:  

/s/ Antonio Masone

  Name: Antonio Masone
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer
By:  

/s/ Michael D. Deal

  Name: Michael D. Deal
  Title: Vice President & Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary

[Signature page to the Officers’ Certificate (Indenture)]


Exhibit A

Form of 2024 Note


THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRANSFER PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE.

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.


AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.700% Notes due 2024

 

No.    CUSIP No. 023135CM6
   ISIN No. US023135CM69
   $

AMAZON.COM, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns the principal sum of                                 on November 29, 2024 (the “Stated Maturity”).

Interest Payment Dates: May 29 and November 29 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing on May 29, 2023.

Interest Record Dates: May 14 and November 14 (each, a “Regular Record Date”).

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein (the “Note”), which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Signature Page Follows

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.
By:  

 

Name:
Title:

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated: __________________, 2022.

 

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.700% Notes due 2024

 

1.

Interest.

Amazon.com, Inc. (the “Issuer”) promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum described above. Cash interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid; or, if no interest has been paid, from December 1, 2022. Interest on this Note will be paid to but excluding the relevant Interest Payment Date or on such earlier date as the principal amount shall become due in accordance with the provisions hereof. The Issuer will pay interest semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, beginning on May 29, 2023. If any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date with respect to the Notes is not a Business Day, the required payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest will be due on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date that such payment was due, and no interest will accrue on that payment for the period from and after that Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date, as the case may be, to the date of that payment on the next succeeding Business Day. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and at the same rate on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful from the dates such amounts are due until such amounts are paid or made available for payment.

 

2.

Paying Agent.

Initially, Computershare Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”) will act as Paying Agent. The Issuer may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 

3.

Indenture; Defined Terms.

This Note is one of the 4.700% Notes due 2024 (the “Notes”) issued under the Indenture dated as of November 29, 2012 by and between the Issuer and the Trustee, as successor trustee (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 1 dated as of April 13, 2022 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and the Officers’ Certificate dated as of December 1, 2022 establishing the terms of the Notes pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Base Indenture (the “Officers’ Certificate”). This Note is a “Security” and the Notes are “Securities” under the Indenture.

For purposes of this Note, unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S.C. §§77aaa-77bbbb) (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date on which the Indenture was qualified under the TIA. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

4.

Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Where the Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Notes, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if the requirements for such transactions set forth in the Indenture are met. The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar

 

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governmental charge payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. Neither the Issuer nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange the Notes for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the delivery of a notice of redemption of the Notes selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such delivery, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange the Notes selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Notes selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

 

5.

Amendment; Modification; Waiver.

The Indenture and the Notes may be amended or supplemented, and waivers may be obtained in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may waive any existing or past Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes. Those Holders may not, however, waive any Default or Event of Default in any payment on the Notes.

Any amendment, supplement or waiver to the Notes made with the consent of Holders of the Notes, shall be made with respect to the Notes only, and not any other series of Securities.

 

6.

Optional Redemption.

The Issuer may redeem the Notes in whole at any time or in part from time to time prior to maturity (the date of such redemption, the “Redemption Date”) at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(i) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined in the Officers’ Certificate) plus 5.0 basis points, less (b) interest accrued and unpaid thereon to the Redemption Date; or

(ii) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed,

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Redemption Date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due and payable on Interest Payment Dates falling on or prior to a Redemption Date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date according to the Notes and the Indenture.

If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Issuer will pay the redemption price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

On or after any Redemption Date, unless the Issuer defaults in payment of the redemption price, interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption. On or before any Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent money in immediately available funds sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed on that date. If fewer than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Notes to be redeemed pro rata by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems appropriate and fair. For so long as the Notes are held in the form of Global Securities the redemption of the Notes shall be in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange. Notes of $2,000 principal amount or less will not be redeemed in part.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

 

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Notice of any redemption shall be electronically delivered or mailed in accordance with Section 10.1 of the Base Indenture at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed. Such notice shall state the redemption price (if known) or the formula pursuant to which the redemption price is to be determined if the redemption price cannot be determined at the time the notice is given. If the redemption price cannot be determined at the time such notice is to be given, the actual redemption price shall be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate (as such term is defined in the Base Indenture) of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date. Notice of redemption having been given as provided in the Indenture, the Notes called for redemption shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the applicable redemption price.

Notice of any redemption of the Notes in connection with a transaction or an event may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given prior to the completion or the occurrence thereof. Any redemption or notice may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion or occurrence of a related transaction or event. At the Issuer’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date as so delayed. The Issuer shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of the Notes subject to such redemption notice in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

7.

Defaults and Remedies.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture), the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes may require the Issuer to pay immediately the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Securities. If an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture occurs, the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Series of Securities will become immediately due and payable without any action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Notes.

 

8.

Authentication.

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

9.

Abbreviations and Defined Terms.

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

10.

CUSIP Numbers.

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Issuer has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

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11.

Governing Law.

The laws of the State of New York shall govern the Indenture and this Note without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 

 

(Name and address of Assignee, including Zip code, must be printed or typewritten)

 

 

 

 

the within Note, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably, constituting and appointing

 

 

 

 

to transfer the said Note on the books of Amazon.com, Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                                                                                                 

 

      Signature

 

     

 

Signature must be guaranteed       Signature

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES

The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for certificated Notes or a part of another Global Security have been made:

 

Date of Exchange

 

Amount of decrease

in Principal Amount of

this Global Security

 

Amount of increase

in Principal Amount of this
Global Security

 

Principal Amount of this

Global Security following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized officer
of Trustee

       

 

 

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Exhibit B

Form of 2025 Note

 


THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRANSFER PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE.

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

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AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.600% Notes due 2025

 

No.    CUSIP No. 023135CN4
   ISIN No. US023135CN43
   $

AMAZON.COM, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns the principal sum of                                 on December 1, 2025 (the “Stated Maturity”).

Interest Payment Dates: June 1 and December 1 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing on June 1, 2023.

Interest Record Dates: May 17 and November 16 (each, a “Regular Record Date”).

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein (the “Note”), which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Signature Page Follows

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.
By:  

 

Name:
Title:

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated: __________________, 2022.

 

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.600% Notes due 2025

 

1.

Interest.

Amazon.com, Inc. (the “Issuer”) promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum described above. Cash interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid; or, if no interest has been paid, from December 1, 2022. Interest on this Note will be paid to but excluding the relevant Interest Payment Date or on such earlier date as the principal amount shall become due in accordance with the provisions hereof. The Issuer will pay interest semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, beginning on June 1, 2023. If any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date with respect to the Notes is not a Business Day, the required payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest will be due on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date that such payment was due, and no interest will accrue on that payment for the period from and after that Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date, as the case may be, to the date of that payment on the next succeeding Business Day. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and at the same rate on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful from the dates such amounts are due until such amounts are paid or made available for payment.

 

2.

Paying Agent.

Initially, Computershare Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”) will act as Paying Agent. The Issuer may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 

3.

Indenture; Defined Terms.

This Note is one of the 4.600% Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”) issued under the Indenture dated as of November 29, 2012 by and between the Issuer and the Trustee, as successor trustee (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 1 dated as of April 13, 2022 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and the Officers’ Certificate dated as of December 1, 2022 establishing the terms of the Notes pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Base Indenture (the “Officers’ Certificate”). This Note is a “Security” and the Notes are “Securities” under the Indenture.

For purposes of this Note, unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S.C. §§77aaa-77bbbb) (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date on which the Indenture was qualified under the TIA. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

4.

Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Where the Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Notes, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if the requirements for such transactions set forth in the Indenture are met. The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar

 

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governmental charge payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. Neither the Issuer nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange the Notes for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the delivery of a notice of redemption of the Notes selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such delivery, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange the Notes selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Notes selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

 

5.

Amendment; Modification; Waiver.

The Indenture and the Notes may be amended or supplemented, and waivers may be obtained in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may waive any existing or past Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes. Those Holders may not, however, waive any Default or Event of Default in any payment on the Notes.

Any amendment, supplement or waiver to the Notes made with the consent of Holders of the Notes, shall be made with respect to the Notes only, and not any other series of Securities.

 

6.

Optional Redemption.

The Issuer may redeem the Notes in whole at any time or in part from time to time prior to maturity (the date of such redemption, the “Redemption Date”) at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(i) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined in the Officers’ Certificate) plus 10.0 basis points, less (b) interest accrued and unpaid thereon to the Redemption Date; or

(ii) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed,

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Redemption Date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due and payable on Interest Payment Dates falling on or prior to a Redemption Date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date according to the Notes and the Indenture.

If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Issuer will pay the redemption price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

On or after any Redemption Date, unless the Issuer defaults in payment of the redemption price, interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption. On or before any Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent money in immediately available funds sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed on that date. If fewer than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Notes to be redeemed pro rata by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems appropriate and fair. For so long as the Notes are held in the form of Global Securities the redemption of the Notes shall be in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange. Notes of $2,000 principal amount or less will not be redeemed in part.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

 

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Notice of any redemption shall be electronically delivered or mailed in accordance with Section 10.1 of the Base Indenture at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed. Such notice shall state the redemption price (if known) or the formula pursuant to which the redemption price is to be determined if the redemption price cannot be determined at the time the notice is given. If the redemption price cannot be determined at the time such notice is to be given, the actual redemption price shall be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate (as such term is defined in the Base Indenture) of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date. Notice of redemption having been given as provided in the Indenture, the Notes called for redemption shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the applicable redemption price.

Notice of any redemption of the Notes in connection with a transaction or an event may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given prior to the completion or the occurrence thereof. Any redemption or notice may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion or occurrence of a related transaction or event. At the Issuer’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date as so delayed. The Issuer shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of the Notes subject to such redemption notice in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

7.

Defaults and Remedies.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture), the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes may require the Issuer to pay immediately the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Securities. If an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture occurs, the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Series of Securities will become immediately due and payable without any action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Notes.

 

8.

Authentication.

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

9.

Abbreviations and Defined Terms.

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

10.

CUSIP Numbers.

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Issuer has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

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11.

Governing Law.

The laws of the State of New York shall govern the Indenture and this Note without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 

 

(Name and address of Assignee, including Zip code, must be printed or typewritten)

 

 

 

 

the within Note, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably, constituting and appointing

 

 

 

 

to transfer the said Note on the books of Amazon.com, Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:  

 

    

 

       Signature

 

    

 

Signature must be guaranteed      Signature

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES

The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for certificated Notes or a part of another Global Security have been made:

 

Date of Exchange

 

Amount of decrease

in Principal Amount of

this Global Security

 

Amount of increase

in Principal Amount of this
Global Security

 

Principal Amount of this

Global Security following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized officer
of Trustee

       

 

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Exhibit C

Form of 2027 Note


THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRANSFER PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE.

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

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AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.550% Notes due 2027

 

No.    CUSIP No. 023135CP9
   ISIN No. US023135CP90
   $

AMAZON.COM, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns the principal sum of                                 on December 1, 2027 (the “Stated Maturity”).

Interest Payment Dates: June 1 and December 1 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing on June 1, 2023.

Interest Record Dates: May 17 and November 16 (each, a “Regular Record Date”).

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein (the “Note”), which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Signature Page Follows

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.
By:  

 

Name:
Title:

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated: __________________, 2022.

 

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.550% Notes due 2027

 

1.

Interest.

Amazon.com, Inc. (the “Issuer”) promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum described above. Cash interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid; or, if no interest has been paid, from December 1, 2022. Interest on this Note will be paid to but excluding the relevant Interest Payment Date or on such earlier date as the principal amount shall become due in accordance with the provisions hereof. The Issuer will pay interest semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, beginning on June 1, 2023. If any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date with respect to the Notes is not a Business Day, the required payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest will be due on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date that such payment was due, and no interest will accrue on that payment for the period from and after that Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date, as the case may be, to the date of that payment on the next succeeding Business Day. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and at the same rate on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful from the dates such amounts are due until such amounts are paid or made available for payment.

 

2.

Paying Agent.

Initially, Computershare Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”) will act as Paying Agent. The Issuer may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 

3.

Indenture; Defined Terms.

This Note is one of the 4.550% Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”) issued under the Indenture dated as of November 29, 2012 by and between the Issuer and the Trustee, as successor trustee (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 1 dated as of April 13, 2022 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and the Officers’ Certificate dated as of December 1, 2022 establishing the terms of the Notes pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Base Indenture (the “Officers’ Certificate”). This Note is a “Security” and the Notes are “Securities” under the Indenture.

For purposes of this Note, unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S.C. §§77aaa-77bbbb) (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date on which the Indenture was qualified under the TIA. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

4.

Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Where the Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Notes, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if the requirements for such transactions set forth in the Indenture are met. The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar

 

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governmental charge payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. Neither the Issuer nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange the Notes for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the delivery of a notice of redemption of the Notes selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such delivery, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange the Notes selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Notes selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

 

5.

Amendment; Modification; Waiver.

The Indenture and the Notes may be amended or supplemented, and waivers may be obtained in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may waive any existing or past Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes. Those Holders may not, however, waive any Default or Event of Default in any payment on the Notes.

Any amendment, supplement or waiver to the Notes made with the consent of Holders of the Notes, shall be made with respect to the Notes only, and not any other series of Securities.

 

6.

Optional Redemption.

The Issuer may redeem the Notes in whole at any time or in part from time to time prior to November 1, 2027 (the date of such redemption, the “Make-Whole Redemption Date”) at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(i) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Make-Whole Redemption Date (assuming the Notes matured on November 1, 2027) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined in the Officers’ Certificate) plus 10.0 basis points, less (b) interest accrued and unpaid thereon to the Make-Whole Redemption Date; or

(ii) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed,

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Make-Whole Redemption Date.

On or after November 1, 2027, the Issuer may redeem the Notes, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, the date of redemption (such date, and any Make-Whole Redemption Date, a “Redemption Date”).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due and payable on Interest Payment Dates falling on or prior to a Redemption Date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date according to the Notes and the Indenture.

If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Issuer will pay the redemption price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

On or after any Redemption Date, unless the Issuer defaults in payment of the redemption price, interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption. On or before any Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent money in immediately available funds sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed on that date. If fewer than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Notes

 

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to be redeemed pro rata by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems appropriate and fair. For so long as the Notes are held in the form of Global Securities the redemption of the Notes shall be in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange. Notes of $2,000 principal amount or less will not be redeemed in part.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption shall be electronically delivered or mailed in accordance with Section 10.1 of the Base Indenture at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed. Such notice shall state the redemption price (if known) or the formula pursuant to which the redemption price is to be determined if the redemption price cannot be determined at the time the notice is given. If the redemption price cannot be determined at the time such notice is to be given, the actual redemption price shall be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate (as such term is defined in the Base Indenture) of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date. Notice of redemption having been given as provided in the Indenture, the Notes called for redemption shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the applicable redemption price.

Notice of any redemption of the Notes in connection with a transaction or an event may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given prior to the completion or the occurrence thereof. Any redemption or notice may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion or occurrence of a related transaction or event. At the Issuer’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date as so delayed. The Issuer shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of the Notes subject to such redemption notice in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

7.

Defaults and Remedies.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture), the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes may require the Issuer to pay immediately the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Securities. If an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture occurs, the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Series of Securities will become immediately due and payable without any action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Notes.

 

8.

Authentication.

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

9.

Abbreviations and Defined Terms.

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

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10.

CUSIP Numbers.

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Issuer has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

11.

Governing Law.

The laws of the State of New York shall govern the Indenture and this Note without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 

 

(Name and address of Assignee, including Zip code, must be printed or typewritten)

 

 

 

 

the within Note, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably, constituting and appointing

 

 

 

 

to transfer the said Note on the books of Amazon.com, Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                                                                                                    

 

    Signature

 

Signature must be guaranteed

   

 

Signature

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES

The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for certificated Notes or a part of another Global Security have been made:

 

Date of Exchange

 

Amount of decrease

in Principal Amount of

this Global Security

 

Amount of increase

in Principal Amount of this
Global Security

 

Principal Amount of this

Global Security following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized officer
of Trustee

       

 

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Exhibit D

Form of 2029 Note


THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRANSFER PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE.

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

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AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.650% Notes due 2029

 

No.    CUSIP No. 023135CQ7
   ISIN No. US023135CQ73
   $

AMAZON.COM, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns the principal sum of                                 on December 1, 2029 (the “Stated Maturity”).

Interest Payment Dates: June 1 and December 1 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing on June 1, 2023.

Interest Record Dates: May 17 and November 16 (each, a “Regular Record Date”).

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein (the “Note”), which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Signature Page Follows

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.
By:  

 

Name:
Title:

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated: __________________, 2022.

 

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.650% Notes due 2029

 

1.

Interest.

Amazon.com, Inc. (the “Issuer”) promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum described above. Cash interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid; or, if no interest has been paid, from December 1, 2022. Interest on this Note will be paid to but excluding the relevant Interest Payment Date or on such earlier date as the principal amount shall become due in accordance with the provisions hereof. The Issuer will pay interest semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, beginning on June 1, 2023. If any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date with respect to the Notes is not a Business Day, the required payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest will be due on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date that such payment was due, and no interest will accrue on that payment for the period from and after that Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date, as the case may be, to the date of that payment on the next succeeding Business Day. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and at the same rate on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful from the dates such amounts are due until such amounts are paid or made available for payment.

 

2.

Paying Agent.

Initially, Computershare Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”) will act as Paying Agent. The Issuer may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 

3.

Indenture; Defined Terms.

This Note is one of the 4.650% Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”) issued under the Indenture dated as of November 29, 2012 by and between the Issuer and the Trustee, as successor trustee (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 1 dated as of April 13, 2022 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and the Officers’ Certificate dated as of December 1, 2022 establishing the terms of the Notes pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Base Indenture (the “Officers’ Certificate”). This Note is a “Security” and the Notes are “Securities” under the Indenture.

For purposes of this Note, unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S.C. §§77aaa-77bbbb) (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date on which the Indenture was qualified under the TIA. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

4.

Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Where the Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Notes, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if the requirements for such transactions set forth in the Indenture are met. The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar

 

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governmental charge payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. Neither the Issuer nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange the Notes for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the delivery of a notice of redemption of the Notes selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such delivery, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange the Notes selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Notes selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

 

5.

Amendment; Modification; Waiver.

The Indenture and the Notes may be amended or supplemented, and waivers may be obtained in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may waive any existing or past Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes. Those Holders may not, however, waive any Default or Event of Default in any payment on the Notes.

Any amendment, supplement or waiver to the Notes made with the consent of Holders of the Notes, shall be made with respect to the Notes only, and not any other series of Securities.

 

6.

Optional Redemption.

The Issuer may redeem the Notes in whole at any time or in part from time to time prior to October 1, 2029 (the date of such redemption, the “Make-Whole Redemption Date”) at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(i) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Make-Whole Redemption Date (assuming the Notes matured on October 1, 2029) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined in the Officers’ Certificate) plus 15.0 basis points, less (b) interest accrued and unpaid thereon to the Make-Whole Redemption Date; or

(ii) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed,

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Make-Whole Redemption Date.

On or after October 1, 2029, the Issuer may redeem the Notes, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, the date of redemption (such date, and any Make-Whole Redemption Date, a “Redemption Date”).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due and payable on Interest Payment Dates falling on or prior to a Redemption Date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date according to the Notes and the Indenture.

If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Issuer will pay the redemption price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

On or after any Redemption Date, unless the Issuer defaults in payment of the redemption price, interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption. On or before any Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent money in immediately available funds sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed on that date. If fewer than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Notes to be redeemed pro rata by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems

 

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appropriate and fair. For so long as the Notes are held in the form of Global Securities the redemption of the Notes shall be in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange. Notes of $2,000 principal amount or less will not be redeemed in part.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption shall be electronically delivered or mailed in accordance with Section 10.1 of the Base Indenture at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed. Such notice shall state the redemption price (if known) or the formula pursuant to which the redemption price is to be determined if the redemption price cannot be determined at the time the notice is given. If the redemption price cannot be determined at the time such notice is to be given, the actual redemption price shall be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate (as such term is defined in the Base Indenture) of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date. Notice of redemption having been given as provided in the Indenture, the Notes called for redemption shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the applicable redemption price.

Notice of any redemption of the Notes in connection with a transaction or an event may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given prior to the completion or the occurrence thereof. Any redemption or notice may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion or occurrence of a related transaction or event. At the Issuer’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date as so delayed. The Issuer shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of the Notes subject to such redemption notice in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

7.

Defaults and Remedies.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture), the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes may require the Issuer to pay immediately the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Securities. If an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture occurs, the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Series of Securities will become immediately due and payable without any action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Notes.

 

8.

Authentication.

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

9.

Abbreviations and Defined Terms.

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

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10.

CUSIP Numbers.

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Issuer has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

11.

Governing Law.

The laws of the State of New York shall govern the Indenture and this Note without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 

 

(Name and address of Assignee, including Zip code, must be printed or typewritten)

 

 

 

 

the within Note, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably, constituting and appointing

 

 

 

 

to transfer the said Note on the books of Amazon.com, Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                                                                                                    

 

    Signature

 

Signature must be guaranteed

   

 

Signature

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES

The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for certificated Notes or a part of another Global Security have been made:

 

Date of Exchange

 

Amount of decrease

in Principal Amount of

this Global Security

 

Amount of increase

in Principal Amount of this
Global Security

 

Principal Amount of this

Global Security following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized officer
of Trustee

       

 

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Exhibit E

Form of 2032 Note


THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY ARE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRANSFER PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE.

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

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AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.700% Notes due 2032

 

No.    CUSIP No. 023135CR5
   ISIN No. US023135CR56
   $

AMAZON.COM, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns the principal sum of                                 on December 1, 2032 (the “Stated Maturity”).

Interest Payment Dates: June 1 and December 1 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing on June 1, 2023.

Interest Record Dates: May 17 and November 16 (each, a “Regular Record Date”).

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein (the “Note”), which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Signature Page Follows

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.
By:  

 

Name:
Title:

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated: __________________, 2022.

 

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:  

             

  Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

AMAZON.COM, INC.

4.700% Notes due 2032

 

1.

Interest.

Amazon.com, Inc. (the “Issuer”) promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum described above. Cash interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid; or, if no interest has been paid, from December 1, 2022. Interest on this Note will be paid to but excluding the relevant Interest Payment Date or on such earlier date as the principal amount shall become due in accordance with the provisions hereof. The Issuer will pay interest semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, beginning on June 1, 2023. If any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date with respect to the Notes is not a Business Day, the required payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest will be due on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date that such payment was due, and no interest will accrue on that payment for the period from and after that Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or other payment date, as the case may be, to the date of that payment on the next succeeding Business Day. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and at the same rate on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful from the dates such amounts are due until such amounts are paid or made available for payment.

 

2.

Paying Agent.

Initially, Computershare Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”) will act as Paying Agent. The Issuer may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 

3.

Indenture; Defined Terms.

This Note is one of the 4.700% Notes due 2032 (the “Notes”) issued under the Indenture dated as of November 29, 2012 by and between the Issuer and the Trustee, as successor trustee (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 1 dated as of April 13, 2022 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and the Officers’ Certificate dated as of December 1, 2022 establishing the terms of the Notes pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Base Indenture (the “Officers’ Certificate”). This Note is a “Security” and the Notes are “Securities” under the Indenture.

For purposes of this Note, unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S.C. §§77aaa-77bbbb) (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date on which the Indenture was qualified under the TIA. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

4.

Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Where the Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Notes, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if the requirements for such transactions set forth in the Indenture are met. The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar

 

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governmental charge payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. Neither the Issuer nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange the Notes for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the delivery of a notice of redemption of the Notes selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such delivery, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange the Notes selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Notes selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

 

5.

Amendment; Modification; Waiver.

The Indenture and the Notes may be amended or supplemented, and waivers may be obtained in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may waive any existing or past Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes. Those Holders may not, however, waive any Default or Event of Default in any payment on the Notes.

Any amendment, supplement or waiver to the Notes made with the consent of Holders of the Notes, shall be made with respect to the Notes only, and not any other series of Securities.

 

6.

Optional Redemption.

The Issuer may redeem the Notes in whole at any time or in part from time to time prior to September 1, 2032 (the date of such redemption, the “Make-Whole Redemption Date”) at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(i) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Make-Whole Redemption Date (assuming the Notes matured on September 1, 2032) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined in the Officers’ Certificate) plus 15.0 basis points, less (b) interest accrued and unpaid thereon to the Make-Whole Redemption Date; or

(ii) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed,

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Make-Whole Redemption Date.

On or after September 1, 2032, the Issuer may redeem the Notes, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, the date of redemption (such date, and any Make-Whole Redemption Date, a “Redemption Date”).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due and payable on Interest Payment Dates falling on or prior to a Redemption Date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date according to the Notes and the Indenture.

If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Issuer will pay the redemption price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

On or after any Redemption Date, unless the Issuer defaults in payment of the redemption price, interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption. On or before any Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent money in immediately available funds sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed on that date. If fewer than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Notes

 

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to be redeemed pro rata by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems appropriate and fair. For so long as the Notes are held in the form of Global Securities the redemption of the Notes shall be in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange. Notes of $2,000 principal amount or less will not be redeemed in part.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption shall be electronically delivered or mailed in accordance with Section 10.1 of the Base Indenture at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed. Such notice shall state the redemption price (if known) or the formula pursuant to which the redemption price is to be determined if the redemption price cannot be determined at the time the notice is given. If the redemption price cannot be determined at the time such notice is to be given, the actual redemption price shall be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate (as such term is defined in the Base Indenture) of the Issuer delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date. Notice of redemption having been given as provided in the Indenture, the Notes called for redemption shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the applicable redemption price.

Notice of any redemption of the Notes in connection with a transaction or an event may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given prior to the completion or the occurrence thereof. Any redemption or notice may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion or occurrence of a related transaction or event. At the Issuer’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date as so delayed. The Issuer shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of the Notes subject to such redemption notice in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

7.

Defaults and Remedies.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture), the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes may require the Issuer to pay immediately the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Securities. If an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f) of the Base Indenture occurs, the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Series of Securities will become immediately due and payable without any action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Notes.

 

8.

Authentication.

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

9.

Abbreviations and Defined Terms.

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

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10.

CUSIP Numbers.

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Issuer has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

11.

Governing Law.

The laws of the State of New York shall govern the Indenture and this Note without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 

 

(Name and address of Assignee, including Zip code, must be printed or typewritten)

 

 

 

 

the within Note, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably, constituting and appointing

 

 

 

 

to transfer the said Note on the books of Amazon.com, Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                                                                                                    

 

    Signature

 

Signature must be guaranteed

   

 

Signature

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES

The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for certificated Notes or a part of another Global Security have been made:

 

Date of Exchange

 

Amount of decrease

in Principal Amount of

this Global Security

 

Amount of increase

in Principal Amount of this
Global Security

 

Principal Amount of this

Global Security following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized officer
of Trustee

       

 

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