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.

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.

A major outage in Amazon's cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for hours, raising questions about the vulnerability of the internet.

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 ...