Amazon Web Services : Overview & Benefits
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that offers on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, businesses, and other organizations.
The service was first launched in 2006 and has grown steadily since then. Today, AWS provides a broad set of compute, storage, database, analytics and other services to over 1 million customers worldwide.
Amazon Web Services provides cloud storage through Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier; compute power through Amazon EC2; database storage through Amazon RDS; analytics through Amazon Athena; application services through AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, AWS OpsWorks and AWS CodeDeploy; enterprise applications through AWS Snowball Edge; content delivery though CloudFront and Alexa web services; hosting of websites on the Internet via the company's own servers with the help of its subsidiary company













