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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Clients often use autoscaling to adjust computing resources based on application usage. These cloud computing web services offer networking, compute, storage, middleware, IoT, and software tools via AWS server farms, freeing clients from managing hardware and operating systems. A foundational service is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), providing virtual clusters of computers with high availability, accessible via REST APIs, CLI, or the AWS console. AWS's virtual computers emulate real computer attributes, including CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage, operating systems, networking, and pre-loaded software like web servers, databases, and CRM. AWS generated US$107.6 billion in revenue in 2024. It was founded in July 2002 for web services and March 2006 for cloud computing.