Amazon Web Services terms and abbreviations

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AWS :

Amazon Web Services

a commercial public cloud maintained and developed by Amazon since 2006. It provides subscribers with services both at the infrastructure model level (virtual servers, storage resources) and at the platform level (cloud databases, cloud middleware software, cloud serverless computing, development tools).

To a large extent (along with Google Cloud Platform) it influenced the formation of the concept of cloud computing as a whole, and determined the main directions of development of the public deployment model.

For a long time it was the world's largest public cloud by revenue, in the second half of the 2010s yielding in this indicator to Azure from Microsoft, while maintaining dominance in the infrastructure and platform services segments.