Amazon Web Services

Also known as AWS, Amazon Web Services, Inc.

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

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Official website: aws.amazon.com

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Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/amazon-web-services
Commons category: Amazon Web Services
inception: 2006-03-00
search formatter URL: aws.amazon.com/search/?searchQuery=$1
social media followers: 791000
service status information URL: status.aws.amazon.com
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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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.