In the past few weeks, a string of companies owned by Amazon have filed accounts in Ireland. As they closed their books for 2019, they reported that they were “dependent on the continued success of the Amazon.com group companies”. Little did they know about the success to come. As the Covid-19 pandemic drove the world online for human activities ranging from shopping to work meetings and table quizzes, the US-based e-commerce and cloud computing giant has seen its share price jump by 30 per cent on the Nasdaq market since the start of this year. Quarterly results to the end…

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