Cloud computing provides on-demand access to computing resources and IT services on a pay-as-you-go basis. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a major cloud computing provider that offers servers and services accessible over the internet. AWS powers many large websites and provides users scalable access to computing resources located in data centers around the world organized into regions and availability zones. AWS offers a wide variety of computing, storage, database, analytics, machine learning and other services that users can access through AWS management consoles and APIs.