Amazon Web Services sales up again
Amazon Web Services sales were up 60 percent year over year for the first quarter of 2014, Amazon announced in its earnings report Thursday. Read more »
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
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