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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.
CloudFormation
An AWS service that provisions and manages cloud resources using declarative JSON or YAML templates.
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
A cloud service model providing virtualized computing resources like servers, storage, and networking over the internet.
Cloud-Native
An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.
Cloud Migration
The process of moving applications, data, and workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud computing environments.
IAM (Identity and Access Management)
A framework for managing digital identities and controlling who can access which cloud resources and services.
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