What is AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms. These services operate from many global geographical regions including 6 in North America.^[3] They include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". As of 2016, AWS has more than 70 services, spanning a wide range, including compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools and tools for the Internet of Things. Amazon markets AWS to clients as a way of obtaining large scale computing capacity more quickly and cheaply than building an actual physical server farm.