Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud infrastructure, platform services, data services, and AI capabilities that help organizations build applications, store and analyze data, modernize operations, and deploy digital products without managing underlying hardware. Its portfolio spans compute, storage, databases, networking, security, analytics, developer tooling, and generative AI, all delivered through a global cloud and edge infrastructure designed for scale, resilience, and low-latency performance.
The company serves builders ranging from individual developers and startups to large enterprises, public sector institutions, and partners. In addition to core cloud services, it supports migration, hybrid deployment, skills development, and marketplace-based software procurement, positioning Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a strategic platform for modern application delivery, data-intensive workloads, and enterprise AI adoption.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Amazon Web Services (AWS) combines foundational infrastructure with managed capabilities for containers, serverless architectures, data storage, relational and NoSQL databases, content delivery, security, observability, and automation. Its services are designed to work together through common APIs, identity controls, monitoring tools, and deployment workflows so teams can move from experimentation to production with consistent governance.
It also supports hybrid and edge use cases, cloud migration and modernization initiatives, partner-delivered solutions, and software procurement through its marketplace ecosystem. AI capabilities extend across model access, model development, enterprise assistants, and embedded intelligence in broader workflows, while integrations with partner software and services expand deployment, support, and commercialization options.
Products and Services
- Amazon EC2: Elastic compute service that provides resizable virtual servers and broad instance choices for general-purpose, memory-intensive, accelerated, and specialized workloads.
- Amazon S3: Object storage service used for application data, backups, archives, data lakes, and large-scale content storage with strong durability and security controls.
- AWS Lambda: Serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages scaling and underlying infrastructure.
- Amazon RDS: Managed relational database service that automates provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, and scaling across multiple database engines.
- Amazon DynamoDB: Serverless, fully managed NoSQL database for key-value and document workloads that require low-latency performance at scale.
- Amazon EKS: Managed Kubernetes service for deploying and operating containerized applications in the cloud and in connected on-premises environments.
- Amazon Bedrock: Fully managed generative AI service for building applications with foundation models through a common API, with tools for customization, evaluation, and orchestration.
- Amazon SageMaker AI: Managed AI and machine learning platform for building, training, customizing, and deploying models with integrated development, governance, and optimization tooling.
- Amazon Q: Generative AI assistant that helps developers and business users accelerate software work, access enterprise knowledge, and complete tasks across AWS environments.
- Amazon CloudFront: Content delivery network and edge service for low-latency delivery of web content, APIs, video, and application traffic with integrated security controls.
- Amazon Aurora: Managed relational database engine compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, designed for higher performance, availability, and scale.
- Amazon Redshift: Managed cloud data warehouse for large-scale SQL analytics, including serverless deployment options for variable workloads.
- AWS Outposts: Managed offering that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools into on-premises and edge locations for consistent hybrid operations.
- AWS Marketplace: Curated digital catalog for discovering, buying, deploying, and managing third-party software, data, and services that run on or integrate with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- AWS Training and Certification: Training and credentialing portfolio that provides digital and classroom learning, role-based skill development, and AWS certification paths for individuals and teams.
Target Customers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) targets organizations that need elastic infrastructure, managed services, and AI capabilities without building or operating their own large-scale data center footprint. Its customers include individual developers, digital-native startups, software companies, small and midsize businesses, and global enterprises running business-critical applications, data platforms, and customer-facing digital services.
It also serves public sector organizations including government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare institutions that require secure, compliant, and scalable cloud environments. Through industry-focused solutions and its partner ecosystem, Amazon Web Services (AWS) supports customers across sectors such as financial services, manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecommunications, retail, automotive, industrials, and life sciences.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Amazon Web Services (AWS) operates AWS Marketplace as its cloud marketplace for third-party software, data, and services that customers can procure, deploy, and manage within their AWS environments.
Key People
- Matt Garman: CEO, AWS
- Colleen Aubrey: Senior Vice President, AWS Applied AI Solutions
- Swami Sivasubramanian: Vice President for Agentic AI, AWS
- Julia White: Chief Marketing Officer & Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, AWS
- Ruba Borno: VP, Global Specialists and Partners, AWS
- Kathrin Renz: Vice President of AWS Industries
- Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec: Vice President, Technology, Data and Analytics, AWS
- Rahul Pathak: Vice President, Data and AI GTM, AWS
- G2 Krishnamoorthy: Vice President of AWS Database Services
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Employees: Approximately 158,000
- Annual Revenue: $128.7B
- Parent Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
- Subsidiaries: More than 30 regional subsidiaries and operating entities, including Amazon Web Services Canada, Inc.; Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL; Amazon AWS Servicos Brasil Ltda.; Amazon Web Services Japan G.K.; and Amazon Web Services Korea LLC.
- Publicly Listed: No; Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., which is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under AMZN.
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) for Amazon Connect.
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025. Leader in The Forrester Wave: Contact-Center-As-A-Service Platforms, Q2 2025 for Amazon Connect.
- IDC: Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2025 Vendor Assessment.
