1. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud computing platform that provides scalable computing, storage, database, and application services.
2. AWS offers advantages like eliminating the need to purchase and maintain physical hardware, ability to scale instantly, and pay only for resources used.
3. Key AWS services include compute, storage, databases, networking, and security services like EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and IAM.
4. AWS has a global infrastructure of data centers across 26 regions for fault tolerance and low latency access worldwide.