Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help business scale and grow. AWS offers reliable, adaptable, and cost-efficient cloud computing resources on which you host your applications. The AWS Cloud provides a broad set of infrastructure services, such as computing power, storage options, networking and databases, delivered as a utility: on-demand, available in seconds, with pay-as-you-go pricing.
From data warehousing to deployment tools, directories to content delivery, more than 50 services are available in just a few mouse clicks with AWS. New services are quick to provision, without upfront capital expense, allowing enterprises, start-ups, and customers in the public sector to access the building blocks they need to respond rapidly to changing business requirements.