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What is AWS (Amazon Web Services)?

The world's largest cloud computing platform, offering hundreds of services for compute, storage, networking, and more.

Amazon Web Services is the market-leading cloud provider with the broadest set of services and the largest global infrastructure footprint. Founded in 2006, AWS pioneered the Infrastructure-as-a-Service model. Core services include EC2 (virtual servers), S3 (object storage), RDS (managed databases), Lambda (serverless functions), and EKS (Kubernetes). AWS operates in multiple geographic regions with availability zones for redundancy. It serves millions of customers from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, governments, and nonprofits.

Related Terms

Auto Scaling
Automatically adjusting the number of computing resources based on current demand to maintain performance and optimize costs.
Kubernetes Pod
The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers that share storage, network, and lifecycle.
Cloud IAM
Identity and Access Management services that control who can access cloud resources and what actions they can perform.
IAM (Identity and Access Management)
A framework for managing digital identities and controlling who can access which cloud resources and services.
Kubernetes Namespace
A virtual cluster within a Kubernetes cluster that provides scope for names and enables resource isolation between teams or environments.
S3 (Simple Storage Service)
An AWS object storage service that stores and retrieves any amount of data from anywhere on the web.
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