Amazon—aren't they an online bookstore? This is what someone in the late 1990s might have asked. Nowadays, with nearly 40% of the e-commerce market in the US and over 30% in India, everyone knows who they are. But not so well-known outside of technology circles is Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon describes this part of the business as follows:
AWS is a secure cloud services platform (https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-cloud-computing/), offering compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Millions of customers (https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/) are currently leveraging AWS cloud products (https://aws.amazon.com/products/) and solutions (https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/) to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability (https...