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Amazon Web Services
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subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
Key facts
- Company type
- Subsidiary
- Industry
- Web services , cloud computing
- Founded
- July 2002 ; 23 years ago ( 2002-07 ) ( Web services ) March 2006 ; 20 years ago ( 2006-03 ) ( Cloud computing )
- Key people
- Matt Garman (CEO) C. J. Moses ( CISO )
- Revenue
- US$128.7 billion (2025)
- Operating income
- US$45.6 billion (2025)
- Parent
- Amazon
- Subsidiaries
- Annapurna Labs AWS Elemental NICE Software AWS Wickr
- Website
- aws .amazon .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Seattle
- Owned by
- Amazon
- Parent organization
- Amazon
- CEO
- Andy Jassy
- Industry
- cloud computing
- Legal form
- Delaware corporation
- Developer
- Amazon
- Official website
- aws.amazon.com
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/amazon-web-services
- Commons category
- Amazon Web Services
- topic's main category
- Category:Amazon Web Services
- inception
- 2006-03-00
- member of
- Internet2
- search formatter URL
- aws.amazon.com/search/?searchQuery=$1
- social media followers
- 791000
- service status information URL
- status.aws.amazon.com
- used by
- Mapbox
- business model
- infrastructure as a service
- short name
- AWS
- contact page URL
- aws.amazon.com/contact-us
- FAQ URL
- aws.amazon.com/faqs
- privacy policy URL
- aws.amazon.com/privacy
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Encyclopedic overview
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.
Clients often use this in combination with autoscaling (a process that allows a client to use more computing in times of high application usage, and then scale down to reduce costs when there is less traffic). These cloud computing web services provide various services related to networking, compute, storage, middleware, IoT and other processing capacity, as well as software tools via AWS server farms. This frees clients from managing, scaling, and patching hardware and operating systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amazon Web Services” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.