Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide a variety of basic abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools. One of these services is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. AWS's version of virtual computers emulates most of the attributes of a real computer, including hardware central processing units and graphics processing units for processing; local/RAM memory; hard-disk/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management. The AWS technology is implemented at server farms throughout the world, and maintained by the Amazon subsidiary.
| Key people | Andy Jassy (CEO), Adam Selipsky (CEO-elect), Stephen Schmidt (CISO), Matt Garman, Charlie Bell, Peter DeSantis, Babik Parvez, James Hamilton |
| Industry | Web service, cloud computing |
| Revenue | US$46 billion (2020) |
| Operating income | US$13.5 billion (2020) |
| Parent | Amazon |
| Subsidiaries | Annapurna Labs, AWS Elemental, NICE, Twitch |
| Launched | Web services, Cloud computing |
| Current status | Active |
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