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Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, enabling customers to build almost anything they can imagine. We offer the greatest choice of innovative cloud capabilities and expertise on the most extensive global infrastructure, with industry-leading security, reliability, and performance.
What is AWS
Explore how millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
Breakthrough innovations
AWS is committed to delivering industry-first cloud capabilities for our customers. The scale and scope at which we operate enable us to look around corners and think years ahead—to innovate on your behalf. We have delivered the first cloud-native services for compute, serverless, storage, and relational databases, and the first fully managed, end-to-end machine learning suite.
Security you can trust
Security is our highest priority. We've architected our infrastructure and services to provide you with the most secure cloud computing environment available today. AWS helps meet the unique security requirements of the most sensitive workloads, trusted by government agencies, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations worldwide.
Greatest choice
AWS gives you the greatest choice and flexibility by offering the broadest and deepest set of cloud capabilities to build optimized solutions that balance performance and cost-effectiveness. With AWS, organizations modernize faster, scale more efficiently, and maintain competitive advantages through access to cutting-edge technologies and industry-specific solutions.
Largest and most extensive global infrastructure
We've built the world’s largest and most extensive global
infrastructure, providing you the capacity you need. Our infrastructure is uniquely architected to offer unparalleled scalability, performance, and reliability for your applications whether they are running in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
Trusted partners and solutions
AWS and our partners share an obsession over customer success and are committed to helping you find the right solutions. By combining our partners’ deep, specialized expertise with AWS services, infrastructure, and AWS Marketplace, we empower you to achieve exceptional business outcomes with greater speed and confidence.
Longest-running Magic Quadrant Leader for SCPS
Gartner has recognized AWS as a Magic Quadrant Leader for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS) for the 15th straight year. AWS placed highest in the Ability to Execute axis of measurement among the eight vendors named in the report.
Built for industry breakthroughs
AWS provides proven architectures, compliance guides, and customer success stories to help organizations transform their industry.
Financial Services: Accelerate innovation from secure operations to business growth
Transform financial services through breakthrough technology and innovation while maintaining security and compliance at global scale.
Media & Entertainment: Deliver breakthrough experiences to global audiences
Create content faster, connect workflows and teams to increase efficiency, and enhance your entertainment experiences to captivate audiences.
Manufacturing: Drive innovation and enhance efficiency in operations
Transform your operations and explore how AWS helps manufacturers speed time-to-market, improve operational efficiency, and increase revenue.
Healthcare & Life Sciences: Power healthcare breakthroughs from insights to patient impact
Remove barriers between groundbreaking research and clinical implementation to accelerate the delivery of innovative healthcare solutions to patients worldwide.
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