Amazon Web Services

Proper Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. A major cloud platform offering infrastructure and managed services for computing, storage, networking, data, and more. In tech culture, the full name often appears in more formal contexts where the abbreviation AWS would be too shorthand or ambiguous.

    In plain English: The full name of AWS, a major cloud computing platform.

    Example: "The startup ran almost everything on Amazon Web Services because the team wanted managed infrastructure instead of owning data center operations."

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