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Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, enabling customers to build 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.

The leading cloud

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. 

Learn about our culture of innovation.

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.

Visit our Trust Center.

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.

Discover our services.

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.

Explore our Global Infrastructure.

At AWS, we 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.

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AWS Global Infrastructure

The AWS Cloud spans 120 Availability Zones within 38 Geographic Regions, with announced plans for 10 more Availability Zones and 3 more AWS Regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chile, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
AWS Coverage Regions North America
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The AWS Cloud in North America has 31 Availability Zones within 9 Geographic Regions, with 31 Edge Network Locations and 3 Edge Cache Locations.
Ashburn, VA
Atlanta GA
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Denver, CO
Hayward, CA
Houston, TX
Jacksonville, FL
Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Minneapolis, MN
Montreal, QC
Nashville, TN
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Palo Alto, CA
Phoenix, AZ
Philadelphia, PA
Portland, OR
Queretaro, MX
Salt Lake City, UT
San Jose, CA
Seattle, WA
South Bend, IN
St. Louis, MO
Tampa Bay, FL
Toronto, ON
Washington D.C.

Powering Customer Innovation

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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.

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