Amazon Web Services (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. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. These services include compute power, database storage, content delivery, and more. AWS is designed to work with each other, and result in applications that are sophisticated and highly scalable. AWS offers a mixture of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and packaged-software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. AWS is currently the largest provider of cloud computing solutions in the world by market share.

AWS was founded in March 2006. It specializes in cloud computing technology and has been recognized by various organizations for its services. For example, AWS has been named as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services.