AWS is an acronym for Amazon Web Services. This is Amazon’s cloud computingThe phrase cloud computing refers to any software running on infrastructure provided by a PaaS such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon... infrastructure. AWS is similar to Microsoft AzureAzure is a cloud platform by Microsoft that provides you with many different services that you can consume on a... or GCP (Google cloud platform).
There are hundreds of different resources and services that are available to help you build your infrastructure in the cloud without having to have any in-house servers running. It is one of the largest providers on the Internet and powers quite a lot of the well known large websites such as Netflix.