Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.

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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.

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Using elastic cloud resources from Amazon Web Services, for example, a tiny software developer can scale its Internet presence as fast as it wants.

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