AWS (Amazon Web Services)

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, on-demand cloud computing platform offered by Amazon. It provides a wide range of cloud-based services including computing power, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile services, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security and enterprise applications. AWS offers these services on a pay-as-you-go basis, allowing users to access only the services they need and scale up or down as required.

Some of the most popular AWS services include EC2 for scalable computing capacity, S3 for cloud object storage, RDS for managed relational databases, Route 53 for DNS management, and Lambda for running serverless functions. Users can access these services directly or manage them through higher-level platforms like Elastic Beanstalk for application deployment and CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning. The flexibility, breadth and pay-as-you-go nature of AWS services has made it the most widely used public cloud platform today for everything from websites and mobile apps to big data analytics and enterprise business applications. Key benefits include agility, scalability, reliability and cost savings.