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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

IAM (Identity and Access Management)

A framework for managing digital identities and controlling who can access which cloud resources and services.

An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.

Region and Availability Zone

Geographic locations where cloud providers operate data centers, with zones providing redundancy within a region.

A distributed computing paradigm that processes data near the source of generation rather than in a centralized cloud data center.

Kubernetes Namespace

A virtual cluster within a Kubernetes cluster that provides scope for names and enables resource isolation between teams or environments.

Cloud Computing

The delivery of computing services over the internet, including servers, storage, databases, and software on demand.

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