Amazon Web Services (AWS) began in 2006 offering cloud computing infrastructure services. AWS now offers over 140 global cloud services across compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, tools, IoT, security, and enterprise applications. Major AWS services include Amazon EC2 for virtual servers, S3 for storage, RDS for databases, DynamoDB for NoSQL, ElastiCache for caching, Redshift for data warehousing, VPC for virtual networking, Route 53 for DNS, and EBS for block storage. Customers can use these on-demand services to access resources and applications over the internet and pay only for what they use.