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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon, founded in July 2002 for web services and officially launching its cloud computing platform in March 2006. It provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. AWS offers a comprehensive suite of services related to networking, compute, storage, middleware, IoT, and other processing capacity, as well as software tools via its server farms. This frees clients from managing, scaling, and patching hardware and operating systems. A foundational service is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of highly available computers. These virtual computers emulate most attributes of a real computer, including hardware CPUs and GPUs for processing; local/RAM memory; HDD/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management (CRM). Clients can interact with EC2 over the internet via REST APIs, a CLI, or the AWS console, and often use autoscaling for efficient resource management. AWS reported a substantial revenue of US$107.6 billion in 2024. Key leadership and employee count are not specified in the provided data.