Which company operates the AWS cloud-computing service?

Amazon operates the AWS cloud-computing service.

Amazon Web Services, usually called AWS, provides computing power, storage, databases, networking, and other online services to businesses, governments, and developers. It began offering services publicly in the mid-2000s.

Amazon itself was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookstore. It expanded into a broad e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, digital-content business, hardware producer, and cloud provider.

AWS is important to Amazon’s market value because cloud infrastructure became a major technology industry. It serves customers ranging from startups to large corporations and public institutions. AWS is often confused with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, which are competing cloud platforms operated by different companies.