AWS is Amazon's cloud computing platform that provides on-demand, pay-as-you-go services including infrastructure, platform, and software delivered via the internet. Launched in 2002, AWS now has over 70 services and 16 regions worldwide, with revenue predicted to be $13 billion in 2017. AWS offers data storage options like S3 and Glacier, and services to transfer large amounts of data into the cloud like Snowball, Snowball Edge, and Snowmobile which can transfer exabytes of data.