Amazon is the parent of AWS, the cloud-computing service launched in 2006.
Amazon Web Services, usually called AWS, began offering cloud infrastructure services in 2006. It provides computing power, storage, databases, networking, analytics, and other tools that organizations access over the internet rather than operating all the necessary hardware themselves.
AWS is a division of Amazon, not a separate publicly traded company. Its financial results are reported within Amazon’s operating segments, and its profits have become an important part of the parent company’s overall performance.
Amazon’s other major activities include online retail, advertising, digital entertainment, devices, and logistics. Because investors value all these operations together, Amazon’s market capitalization reflects the entire corporation rather than AWS alone.