AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, ever-evolving cloud computing platform offered by Amazon Inc. that offers infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS) products. AWS services may provide a company with capabilities like computational power, database storage, and content delivery services.

AWS was born in 2006 from Amazon.com's internal infrastructure for handling its online retail activities. AWS was among the first to provide a pay-as-you-go cloud computing model, which extends to give users compute, storage, or throughput as needed.