Amazon Web Servbices (AWS) is a cloud provider.

It provides servers and services on demand that can easily scale.

It's in direct contrast to on-premise solutions that require ordering servers and setting them up manually.

It powers a lot of well known websites, like Netflix.com, which rents all their servers from AWS.

Facts

  • AWS has 90b in revenue
  • 31% of cloud market
  • 1m active users

Use cases

Almost any use case you could want.

  • Hosting websites
  • Backups and storage
  • Big data analytics etc etc