Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.

Launched in July 2006

Amazon Web Services’ offerings are accessed over HTTP, using Representational State Transfer (REST) and SOAP protocols. All services are billed on usage, but how usage is measured for billing varies from service to service.

On April 20, 2011, some of Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage.

List of AWS services

• Amazon AWS Authentication, an implicit service, the authentication infrastructure used to authenticate access to the various services.
• Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN) for distributing objects stored in S3 to so-called "edge locations" near the requester.
• Amazon CloudWatch, provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications, starting with EC2.
• Amazon DevPay, currently in limited beta version, is a billing and account management system for......
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