AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, broadly adopted, and elastic cloud computing platform offered by Amazon. It provides a vast array of services, including computing power, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning, and more, enabling individuals, companies, and…

Key facts

First appeared: 2006
Category: technology
Problem solved: AWS was created to solve the problems of expensive, slow-to-provision, and inflexibly scaled on-premises data centers and infrastructure. It aimed to provide businesses with on-demand access to computing resources, allowing them to pay only for what they used, scale rapidly, and avoid large upfront capital expenditures for hardware and data centers.
Platforms: SDKs (various programming languages), Global network of data centers, CLI (AWS CLI), Web (management console)

Related technologies

Java
Ruby
Grafana
MongoDB
Kubernetes
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Node.js
Prometheus
Microsoft .NET
Go
Ansible
Python
Docker
Terraform
PHP

Notable users

Siemens
Johnson & Johnson
Airbnb
Netflix
Capital One
Shell
NASA
Spotify
Coca-Cola
Adobe