Reuters
- AWS is a division of Amazon.
- It allows business to rent online storage and computing power as a service.
- AWS has become a go-to platform for businesses, who use it to scale at their own pace.
Amazon Web Services — also often referred to simply as AWS — is a division of Amazon that offers cloud computing services and application programming interfaces (APIs) to large and small companies, government agencies, and individuals.
So many organizations depend on the service that AWS outages can be extremely disruptive to daily life.