Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) describes itself as the world's most comprehensive cloud computing platform, offering more than 240 services spanning compute (EC2, Lambda), databases (Aurora, RDS), object storage (S3), and analytics, security, and networking services. Its infrastructure spans 124 availability zones across 39 geographic regions worldwide.

In AI, AWS positions Amazon Bedrock as an end-to-end platform for building generative AI applications and agents, alongside Amazon Quick as an AI-powered assistant. Through the official AWS MCP server, AWS resources and services can be managed and queried directly from AI agents, instead of wiring up every service through its own SDK. Amazon also offers Kiro, an AI-powered integrated development environment that combines spec-driven coding with agentic capabilities.

Billing is usage-based on a pay-as-you-go model, complemented by savings plans for predictable workloads and a free tier for initial testing.

AWS grew out of an internal Amazon project: in 2004, Jeff Bezos approved early experiments with Amazon's own e-commerce infrastructure, before the service officially launched in 2006 with Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. The build-out was led by Andy Jassy, who later became CEO of Amazon as a whole — a sign of how central AWS has become to the company overall.