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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.

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