Amazon Web Services is a global cloud platform that provides more than 200 services across compute, storage, databases, analytics, application integration, and artificial intelligence. Its infrastructure spans 39 geographic Regions and 123 Availability Zones, with additional expansion underway, giving organizations a large footprint for resilient, distributed, and performance-sensitive workloads.
The portfolio supports cloud-native development, enterprise modernization, data platforms, generative AI, customer engagement, and hybrid or edge deployments. Amazon Web Services serves millions of customers, including startups, large enterprises, and government agencies, and combines self-service consumption with partner ecosystems, marketplace procurement, and specialized support for teams building at scale.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Amazon Web Services delivers a broad set of building blocks for running modern digital workloads, from elastic infrastructure and managed data services to serverless computing, container orchestration, analytics, and generative AI. Its services are designed to work together through shared APIs, security controls, automation, observability, and governance models, which helps customers assemble architectures that can span cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.
Amazon Web Services also supports a large partner and procurement ecosystem. Organizations can discover and buy third-party software and services through marketplace channels, connect enterprise identity systems, and extend architectures across hybrid environments while using familiar operational tooling, policies, and developer workflows.
Products and Services
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): Resizable cloud compute capacity with a broad range of instance types for enterprise, cloud-native, HPC, and machine learning workloads.
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): Object storage service used for data lakes, backup, archive, analytics, and AI data foundations at virtually any scale.
- Amazon Bedrock: Managed platform for building generative AI applications and agents with access to foundation models, customization tools, and guardrails.
- Amazon SageMaker AI: Fully managed service for building, training, customizing, and deploying AI and machine learning models with integrated development and governance capabilities.
- AWS Lambda: Serverless compute service for running event-driven code without managing servers or clusters.
- Amazon Aurora: Managed relational database service for PostgreSQL- and MySQL-compatible workloads that need high performance and high availability.
- Amazon Redshift: Cloud data warehouse for large-scale SQL analytics, lakehouse use cases, and AI-driven analysis on structured and semi-structured data.
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS): Managed Kubernetes service for building, running, and scaling containerized applications across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.
- Amazon Connect: Cloud contact center and customer experience platform for voice, digital channels, and AI-assisted customer service workflows.
- AWS Outposts: Managed on-premises infrastructure that extends Amazon Web Services services, APIs, and tools into customer data centers and edge locations.
- Amazon Q Developer: Generative AI assistant for software development, operations, troubleshooting, modernization, and data and AI workflows.
- AWS Fargate: Serverless compute engine for containers that runs Amazon ECS tasks and Amazon EKS pods without server management.
- Amazon DynamoDB: Fully managed NoSQL database built for single-digit millisecond performance, automatic scaling, and multi-Region resilience.
- AWS Glue: Serverless data integration service for discovering, preparing, cataloging, and moving data across analytics and AI pipelines.
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Platform for building, connecting, and optimizing production AI agents across frameworks and models with built-in security and observability.
Target Customers
Amazon Web Services targets a wide customer spectrum, from early-stage startups and digital-native software companies to large enterprises and public sector institutions. Its consumption model fits organizations that want elastic infrastructure, rapid experimentation, and pay-as-you-go economics, while enterprise agreements and partner-led procurement support larger, more standardized buying motions.
The platform is especially relevant for developers, platform engineering teams, data and analytics groups, AI and machine learning teams, and customer experience organizations. It is also well aligned to regulated and mission-critical environments, including financial services, healthcare, and government, where security, compliance, resilience, and geographic flexibility are central requirements.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Amazon Web Services operates AWS Marketplace as a procurement channel for third-party software, data, and professional services that run on Amazon Web Services.
- Azure Marketplace: Amazon Web Services has a verified Azure Marketplace presence through AWS IAM Identity Center, enabling Microsoft Entra ID-based single sign-on and user provisioning for Amazon Web Services environments.
Key People
- Matt Garman: CEO
- Colleen Aubrey: Senior Vice President, Applied AI Solutions
- David Brown: Senior Vice President, AWS Compute & ML Services
- Julia White: Chief Marketing Officer, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing
- Ruba Borno: Vice President, Global Specialists and Partners
- Swami Sivasubramanian: Vice President for Agentic AI
- Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec: Vice President of Technology
- Tanuja Randery: Vice President and Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Prasad Kalyanaraman: Vice President, AWS Infrastructure Services
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Employees: Approximately 150,000+
- Annual Revenue: $128.7B
- Parent Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No; Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN).
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services – Leader; highest position for Ability to Execute.
- Forrester: The Forrester Wave: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025 – Leader.
- IDC: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2025 Vendor Assessment – Leader.
