Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud-computing platform launched by Amazon starting in 2006, offering on-demand computing power, storage and a wide range of infrastructure and application services billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. It is widely credited as the platform that established the modern public-cloud-computing industry, has long been the largest cloud infrastructure provider in the world by market share, and has been one of Amazon's most profitable business segments, funding much of the rest of the company's operations.
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Launch YearAWS itself traces to earlier internal web services from 2002; 2006 is the year of its first generally available IaaS product (S3), per the same article's History section. Classification
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Amazon Web Services is operated by Amazon.
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1. Wikipedia, Amazon Web Services
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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.
History section
On March 14, 2006, AWS launched Amazon S3 cloud storage
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Amazon Web Services, Inc.
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Amazon Web Services, Inc.
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