AWS

Cloud infrastructure and managed services

Seattle, WA
Founded 2006

About

Amazon Web Services launched in 2006 and is the largest cloud provider by revenue, offering 200+ services spanning compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3, EBS), databases (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift), analytics (Athena, Glue, Kinesis, EMR), and AI/ML (SageMaker, Bedrock). AWS serves startups through Fortune 100 enterprises across every vertical. For data workloads, its portfolio spans data lakes on S3, the Redshift warehouse, Glue for ETL, and Bedrock for foundation model APIs. AWS competes with Google Cloud and Azure, differentiating on service breadth, global infrastructure footprint, and deep enterprise and government procurement relationships.

Products

  • Amazon EC2 — Provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud to run applications and scale as needed.
    Customer sectors: startups, enterprise IT, devops engineers
  • Amazon S3 — Offers scalable object storage for data backup, archiving, and analytics.
    Customer sectors: media and entertainment, enterprise IT, data engineers
  • AWS Marketplace — An online store to find, buy, and deploy third-party software on AWS.
    Customer sectors: IT managers, enterprise buyers, software vendors
  • AWS Global Infrastructure — Global network of data centers providing regions, availability zones, and edge locations for AWS cloud services.
    Customer sectors: cloud architects, enterprise IT, regulatory compliance

Market research & competitive positioning

Source-backed TAM / SAM / SOM sizing, displacement analysis, and an interactive peer positioning map for AWS — available to members.

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