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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... Shortcut: WP:CSD Current list: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion There are a few, limited, cases where admins can delete Wikipedia pages on sight. Non-admins can ask for an admin to delete such a page, either by listing it on speedy deletions, or by adding either a {{delete}} or... Image File history File links Amazon_Web_Services_logo. ... The W3C defines a Web service (many sources also capitalize the second word, as in Web Services) as a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network. ... Amazon. ...

Launched in July 2002, Amazon Web Services exposes Amazon's technological infrastructure. They offer what they call "the fundamental building blocks of business", geared towards allowing people to focus on their core business and their ideas. To date, more than 180,000 developers have signed up to use Amazon Web Services.^[1]

Amazon Web Services’ offerings are based on a per-usage pricing structure and use standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit. All have bandwidth costs for upload and download, unless users transfer data from within Amazon's services, and any file storage necessary (for example, EC2 machine images) will incur S3 fees as well. Rest may refer to: rest (fitness), a period of relative inactivity to allow recovery and growth. ... A collection of decorative soaps used for human hygiene purposes. ...

List of AWS services

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), providing scalable virtual private servers using Xen. Not yet open to the public, and requires an S3 membership.
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), providing web-based storage for applications.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), providing a hosted message queue for web applications.
• Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk), managing small units of work distributed amongst many people.
• Alexa Web Services, providing traffic data, thumbnails, and other information about web sites.
• Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS), providing access to Amazon's product data and electronic commerce functionality.
• Amazon Historical Pricing, providing access to Amazon's historical sales data from its affiliates.
• Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS), currently in limited beta^[2], provides an interface for micropayments.

Amazon Web Services logo Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) brings scalable computing power to the masses allowing users to launch and terminate server instances on demand, hence the term elastic. EC2 uses Xen Virtualization. ... Xen is a free virtual machine monitor for IA-32, x86-64, IA-64 and PowerPC architectures. ... Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services. ... Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a messaging service provided by Amazon. ... The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS), also known as Amazon Web Services or AWS, is a web service and application programming interface (API) accessible via either the SOAP or REST protocols. ... Amazon FPS (Flexible Payments Service) is an Amazon Web Service that allows the transfer of money between two entities. ... Micropayments are means for transferring money, in situations where collecting money with the usual payment systems is impractical, or very expensive, in terms of the amount of money being collected. ...

References

External links

• Amazon Web Services main page
• Bezos Opens Web-Services Sharing for Profits
• Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet
• Beta tester's overview of Amazon EC2 features and possible applications
• Interview with Jeff Barr Amazon Web Services evangelist

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