A variety of cloud-based services from Amazon.com that developers use to deploy Web applications. Launched in 2002, the most notable Amazon Web Services (AWS) are its computing and storage offerings (see
EC2 and
S3 cloud storage). Amazon is the largest cloud computing provider.
In 2011, Amazon added a supercomputing service, offering a cluster of computers for performing intensive calculations (see
Amazon Bracket). Amazon Web Services is a huge and very profitable business for the company. See
Mechanical Turk,
cloud computing and
Amazon.com.