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, businesses, and governments. Clients frequently use this in conjunction with autoscaling (a process that allows a client to use more computing in times of high application usage and then scale down to reduce costs when there is less traffic).

Through AWS server farms, these cloud computing web services provide a variety of services relating to networking, computation, storage, middleware, IOT, and other processing capabilities, as well as software tools.

AWS services are offered to customers through a global network of Amazon server farms. Fees are calculated using a combination of consumption (known as a "pay-as-you-go" model), hardware, operating system, software, or networking characteristics selected by the subscriber, as well as availability, redundancy, security, and service options.

Subscribers have the option of purchasing a single virtual AWS machine, a dedicated physical computer, or clusters of both. Amazon supplies certain parts of security to customers (for example, the physical security of data centers), while other aspects of security are the subscriber's responsibility (e.g., account management, vulnerability scanning, patching). AWS operates from several different geographical locations around the world, including seven in North America.

Founded: 2006
Headquarters: London, UK
Official website: https://aws.amazon.com/