Amazon Web Services or AWS is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings. AWS services can offer an organization tools such as compute power, database storage and content delivery services.
The virtual computers provided by Amazon are similar to the physical computer in the sense that they display all the attributes such as CPUs & GPUs, RAM, Storage drives (HDDs or SDDs). The user can also choose the preferred operating system, software, and more. Users access the computing power of these virtual computers through any of the modern web browsers. The web browser acts similarly to a Windows on a real computer allowing the user to log in and customize the virtual computer.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers businesses an alternative to investing thousands of dollars in computer hardware and staff to run it. With AWS, those businesses can store data and launch server computers in a cloud computing environment, and only pay for what they use.