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