Initially released in early 2006, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of Web based cloud computing platform offered by Amazon.com that includes its most well-known services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. Businesses of any size can requisition wide range of elastic IT computing power, storage, and host of other services without having to buy expensive hardware and software and only pay for services used on a monthly basis without a long-term contract.

EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) provides scalable, pay-as-you-go computing capacity in the clouds using Xen. Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) provides Web based storage that a business need.

Amazon CloudSearch allows businesses to easily integrate search functions into applications. The Amazon Simple Notification Service allows easy setup, operate and send notifications using clouds. Subscribers can easily find, buy and start using software at the AWS Marketplace. The Amazon Flexible Payment Service allows digital transactions between entities and computers as well as humans. All services available from AWS make it more scalable, reliable, and secure for the customer. AWS provides an undisputable array of computing, storage and networking resources to the customer. They are adding additional services to help businesses deal with wide variety of issues.