| Launched in July 2002, AWS was a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon) that offered on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, companies could access technology services such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like AWS. .. | 
                                    
                                      
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