For Amazon, which cloud-computing platform did the company launch in 2006?

Amazon launched Amazon Web Services, commonly called AWS, in 2006.

AWS began with infrastructure services that let developers rent computing resources and storage over the internet rather than buying and maintaining their own servers. Amazon Simple Storage Service launched in 2006, followed by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud later that year.

This approach helped popularize infrastructure as a service and became a major part of Amazon’s business beyond online retail. AWS is often confused with Amazon’s consumer marketplace, but the two are separate business activities within the same company. Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are major competitors, while AWS remains one of the best-known providers of cloud infrastructure and platform services.