Amazon Web Services

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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) offered over the Internet by Amazon.com.

Launched in July 2002, Amazon Web Services exposes the technological resources and infrastructure that Amazon.com has spent $2 billion and over a decade developing.

With ten services launched, Amazon Web Services offers individual developers, entrepreneurs and corporations the fundamental building blocks of business – allowing them to focus on their core business and their ideas. To date, more than 200,000 developers have signed up to use Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Web Services’ offerings are based on a per-usage pricing structure and use standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit.

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), providing scalable virtual private servers using xen.
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), providing web-based storage for applications.
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), providing a hosted message queue for web applications.
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk), managing small units of work distributed amongst many people.
  • Alexa Web Services, providing traffic data, thumbnails, and other information about web sites.
  • Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS), providing access to Amazon's product data and electronic commerce functionality.
  • Amazon Historical Pricing, providing access to Amazon's historical sales data from its affiliates.

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