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Amazon Web Servbices (AWS) is a cloud provider.

It provides servers and services on demand that can easily scale.

It's in direct contrast to on-premise solutions that require ordering servers and setting them up manually. 

It powers a lot of well known websites, like Netflix.com, which rents all their servers from AWS.

## Facts

- AWS has 90b in revenue
- 31% of cloud market
- 1m active users

## Use cases

Almost any use case you could want.

- Hosting websites
- Backups and storage
- Big data analytics etc etc