AWS Amazon Web Services
More info
- Owner
- Amazon
- Founded
- Type
- Market-leading cloud provider
- Website
- aws.amazon.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
The world's biggest cloud provider (~30 % market share in 2024). 200+ services, 35+ regions. Born from Amazon's own internal infrastructure.
S3 + EC2 launched 2006 and defined "cloud computing" for the business world. Powers Netflix, Airbnb, Disney+, millions of others. The most profitable part of the Amazon group — accounts for the majority of operating income. Andy Jassy led AWS for 18 years, became Amazon CEO in 2021. Competitors: Azure (~25 %), GCP (~12 %), Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud. The AWS re:Invent conference in Vegas draws 50,000+ attendees.