Amazon Web Services (AWS) is among the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platforms. Here's what investors should know.

What Is Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud platform offered by Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), has become a giant component of the ecommerce giant’s business portfolio.

Another important characteristic -- the AWS Management Console is a single point of entry to most services, many of which are compatible with each other and work in conjunction.

What is AWS? Amazon Web Services is a cloud-service operation — it stores its customers' data, runs their online activities and more — and a huge profit center for Amazon.

What is AWS? Amazon Web Services is a cloud-service operation — it stores its customers' data, runs their online activities and more — and a huge profit center for Amazon.

What is AWS? Amazon Web Services is a cloud-service operation — it stores its customers' data, runs their online activities and more — and a huge profit center for Amazon.

Amazon web services, also known as AWS experienced a massive service outage yesterday in major websites and apps across the country were affected. So we're talking from netflix to Venmo.

How did it happen? Amazon has still said nothing about what, exactly, went wrong. The company limited its communications Tuesday to terse technical explanations on an Amazon Web Services dashboard ...

Amazon web services, also known as AWS experienced a massive service outage yesterday in major websites and apps across the country were affected. So we're talking from netflix to Venmo.