Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is an Amazon company that offers metered, pay-as-you-go cloud computing platforms and APIs to consumers, corporations, and governments. This is typically used in conjunction with client autoscaling (a procedure that allows a client to consume more computation during periods of heavy application activity and subsequently scale down to decrease expenses during periods of low application usage). Through AWS server farms, these cloud computing web services provide a wide range of networking, computation, storage, middleware, IOT, and other processing capabilities, as well as software tools.

Customers can gain access to AWS services through a global network of Amazon server farms. Fees are computed depending on consumption (a "pay-as-you-go" model), the subscriber's choice of hardware, operating system, software, or networking characteristics, as well as availability, redundancy, security, and service options. Subscribers can purchase a single virtual AWS machine, a dedicated physical computer, or both. Certain components of security are given to consumers by Amazon (for example, the physical security of data centers), while other aspects of security are the subscriber's responsibility. AWS has several facilities around the world, including seven in North America.

Founded: 2006
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, US
Official website: https://aws.amazon.com/