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Amazon Web Services (AWS), a collection of [[Remote computer|remote computing]] services, also called [[Web service|web services]], make up a [[cloud computing]] platform offered by Amazon.com. | Amazon Web Services (AWS), a collection of [[Remote computer|remote computing]] services, also called [[Web service|web services]], make up a [[cloud computing]] platform offered by Amazon.com. | ||
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These services operate from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3. | These services operate from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3. | ||
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, make up a cloud computing platform offered by Amazon.com.
Description
These services operate from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3.
Amazon markets these products as a service to provide large computing-capacity more quickly and more cheaply than a client company building an actual physical server farm.
