What Amazon Web Services does

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing division of Amazon.com, Inc., providing on-demand compute, storage, database, networking, AI/ML, analytics, security, and quantum services to enterprises, governments, and startups. Its platform spans 123 Availability Zones across 39 Geographic Regions (plus 30+ Local Zones, Outposts, and the €7.8B AWS European Sovereign Cloud) and includes foundational services such as Amazon EC2 (including G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs), Amazon S3, AWS Lambda MicroVMs, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Quick, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Trainium, Amazon Braket, and AWS Marketplace. The 2026 portfolio is anchored by an end-to-end agentic AI stack (Amazon Quick, AgentCore, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent, AWS Transform, AWS Continuum) and custom AI silicon (Trainium 3 entering volume production in 2H 2026).

AWS monetizes primarily through usage-based pay-as-you-go pricing across compute, storage, databases, and AI/ML services, supplemented by Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, tiered Support subscriptions (Business+, Enterprise, Unified Operations), AWS Marketplace commissions, multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreements, APN partner program fees, and AWS Professional Services. Go-to-market combines direct enterprise sales, a self-service console, the 4,500+ partner AWS Partner Network, and regional contracting entities in 30+ countries. Customers span 1,000,000+ active accounts per month (including 330,000+ startups) across healthcare, financial services, automotive, government, telecom, industrial, retail, and emerging AI-native verticals.

Name

Amazon Web Services

Legal name

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Website

https://aws.amazon.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing division of Amazon.com, Inc., providing on-demand compute, storage, AI/ML, and platform services across 39 regions and 123 Availability Zones to enterprises, governments, and startups worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services) (HDABAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Compute Cloud & GPU-as-a-Service (HDAAAAAK), Cloud Data Warehouses (HDAEABAA), Integration & Messaging Platforms (API Gateway, Queues, Event Bus) (HDABAAAG), Cloud Networking Core Services (VPC/VNet, Load Balancing, DNS, NAT) (HDABAAAJ), Managed Databases (Relational/NoSQL/In-Memory DBaaS) (HDABAAAE), Cloud Landing Zone & Architecture (Network, IAM, Governance) (BPAEACAE)

Keywords

• Cloud infrastructure services
• Platform as a service
• Artificial intelligence cloud
• Data storage services
• Quantum computing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Pay-as-you-go cloud services: Consumption-based pricing across EC2, S3, Lambda, Bedrock and other services; primary revenue engine for AWS, charged by the second/hour for compute, per-GB for storage, per-request for APIs.
2. Savings Plans and Reserved Instances: Long-term commitments for EC2 (e.g., G7 instances available through On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances) that deliver discounts in exchange for usage commitments.
3. AWS Support plans (Business+, Enterprise, Unified Operations): Tiered subscription support plans providing AI-powered troubleshooting, designated TAMs, 24/7 monitoring, FinOps guidance and mission-critical response times from 30 minutes down to 5 minutes.
4. AWS Marketplace commissions: Marketplace listing fees and revenue share on third-party software, data and services (e.g., Clearsense 1Clearsense Platform, USAN Evolve 90, OpsGuru Energy Lakehouse, ChipAgents) procured through customer AWS accounts.
5. Enterprise contracts and Professional Services: Multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreements (e.g., $419.7M Iowa outsourcing deal with Cognizant and AWS, WPP, Autodesk, Kyndryl, ArcelorMittal, Apexon) plus consulting and implementation services delivered with APN partners.
6. AWS Partner Network program fees and competencies: Partner program revenues through APN competencies (Migration, DevOps, Networking, SaaS, AI Services, SMB, Data & Analytics, Business Value Realization, Agentic AI Specialization) and Premier Tier membership.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels12 records

Core offering

Amazon Web Services provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, businesses, and governments, delivered via 39 Geographic Regions and 123 Availability Zones. Its core portfolio includes elastic compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3), databases, networking, AI/ML (Bedrock, SageMaker, Nova, Trainium, Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Quick), container orchestration (ECS, EKS), contact center (Amazon Connect), content delivery (CloudFront), quantum computing (Braket), and an emerging agentic AI stack (Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent, AWS Transform, AWS Continuum). AWS also runs the AWS Marketplace for third-party software and is expanding into sovereign cloud infrastructure (AWS European Sovereign Cloud) and Local Zones for low-latency edge workloads.

Product overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud computing platform combining a broad infrastructure foundation (123 Availability Zones across 39 Geographic Regions, plus Local Zones, Outposts, and the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud) with a portfolio of platform services organized around compute (Amazon EC2 including G7 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, AWS Lambda MicroVMs), storage (Amazon S3), AI/ML (Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Quick, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Nova, AWS Trainium), data and analytics (Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch), container orchestration (Amazon ECS), contact center (Amazon Connect), and content delivery (Amazon CloudFront). The AWS Summit NYC 2026 launched a new agentic AI stack (Amazon Quick, Bedrock AgentCore, AWS DevOps Agent, AWS Transform, Kiro, AWS Continuum) targeting autonomous AI development. The portfolio is extended via AWS Marketplace and partnerships (e.g., Wickr for encrypted communications, QuEra on Braket for fault-tolerant quantum, AWS Lambda MicroVMs for secure sandboxing).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Amazon EC2: Elastic compute cloud service offering virtual servers in the cloud.
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Bedrock
• Amazon Quick
• Amazon SageMaker
• Amazon Connect
• Amazon Braket
• AWS Trainium
• AWS Lambda
• AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Products and services

• Amazon Quick AI assistant that aggregates data across enterprise systems (Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift) and works autonomously on behalf of users, with autonomous agents, Activity Feed, Custom Apps built from natural language, and natural-language querying of enterprise data.
• Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Platform to build, connect, and optimize agents, including AgentCore Harness, AWS Context, and Knowledge + Web Search for production-grade agentic AI workloads across enterprise systems.
• Amazon Bedrock Fully managed service providing access to foundation models (Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, Stability AI) for building generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.
• AWS Lambda MicroVMs Serverless compute primitive providing virtual machine-level isolation for running user-generated or AI-generated code in isolated, stateful execution environments, powered by Firecracker technology.
• Amazon EC2 G7 Instances Elastic compute instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with up to 700 Gbps EFA networking for AI inference workloads.
• Amazon S3 Object storage service providing industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance, foundational to AWS since 2006.
• Amazon EC2 Elastic compute cloud providing secure and resizable compute capacity in the cloud, supporting a wide variety of workloads with multiple instance types.
• AWS Marketplace Digital catalog enabling customers to find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services that run on AWS.
• AWS European Sovereign Cloud Independent cloud entirely located within the EU, governed by a dedicated European structure with parent company and subsidiaries incorporated in Germany, led by EU citizens bound by European law, addressing EU data governance requirements.
• Amazon ECS Fully managed container orchestration service that allows running, stopping, and managing Docker containers on a cluster, with new high-resolution 20-second metrics for faster auto scaling.
• Amazon SageMaker Fully managed machine learning service for building, training, and deploying ML models at scale.
• Amazon Connect Omnichannel cloud contact center service for customer support operations across voice, chat, and digital channels.
• Amazon Braket Fully managed quantum computing service helping researchers and developers explore and experiment with quantum computing, including fault-tolerant systems.
• Amazon CloudFront Content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency.
• Amazon Nova Family of foundation models providing multimodal intelligence for text, image, and video understanding, available through Amazon Bedrock.
• AWS Trainium Custom AI accelerators (Trainium 3) designed by AWS for deep learning training and inference workloads, with volume production in 2H 2026.
• Amazon HealthLake HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare and life sciences organizations to ingest, store, query, and analyze health data at scale.
• Kiro Agentic AI coding service for development teams with iOS mobile app, providing chat, spec, and autonomous work modes.
• AWS DevOps Agent AI-driven DevOps agent that reviews code for release readiness, runs autonomous testing, investigates incidents, and creates support cases with full investigation context.
• AWS Wickr End-to-end encrypted messaging, voice, video, and file sharing service for enterprise and government customers, especially in regulated environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Cox Automotive built 17 agentic AI solutions in months with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
• +14 more outcomes

Named customers37 records

Segments13 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

AI capability17 records

Feature15 records

Partnerships

40 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship / strategic, strategic, mid, industry co-defendant in eu dma gatekeeper designation and strategic / acquired.

• USTflagship / strategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026UST launched an AI and Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) on AWS to help enterprises accelerate digital transformation through AI and cloud; the CCoE focuses on generative AI, ML, cloud modernization, data analytics, automation and application transformation. Announced at TM Forum's DTW Ignite 2026 in Copenhagen; first telecom-focused solution UST IntelliResQ. Plans to train 300 associates on AWS AI courses by end of 2026.
• Cognizant Government SolutionsstrategicImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 25 June 2026Joint award of $419.7M, 10-year Iowa state IT outsourcing deal alongside AWS, consolidating 36 data centers and 53 call centers into a single cloud-based system; eliminates 196 state IT positions and saves ~$530M.
• eCloudvalley Digital TechnologymidImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 25 June 2026Named AWS Consulting Partner of the Year 2026 in Hong Kong (second consecutive year) and achieved AWS AI Competency in Agentic AI Consulting Services in May 2026.
• Nokiaflagship / strategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026Expanded collaboration to deploy Nokia's Autonomous Network Fabric on AWS for telecom operators, enabling Level 4 autonomy via AI and cloud. Built on existing digital operations apps on AWS, with general availability later in 2026. Operators reportedly achieve >90% automation rates and <4-hour service delivery. Joint go-to-market strategy.
• Cerebras Systemsflagship / strategicTechnology or Integration · 24 June 2026Multi-year partnership for AWS to begin using Cerebras chips in its data centers, with revenue flows expected within the next year (per Reuters). Reported alongside Cerebras's $20B OpenAI agreement and Amazon's deployment of Cerebras systems.
• Anthropic & SwishX (Anthropic + AWS Agentic AI Accelerator 2026)flagship / strategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026AWS and Anthropic jointly run an inaugural Agentic AI Accelerator 2026 supporting 40 early-stage startups (including Bengaluru-based SwishX). The program begins June 26, 2026 in Bengaluru and provides technical mentorship, access to Anthropic frontier AI models, AWS cloud infrastructure and credits.
• ClearsensemidTechnology or Integration · 24 June 20261Clearsense Platform now available in AWS Marketplace for AI-enabled application rationalization, decommissioning, and active archiving. Customers leverage budgeted AWS spend to reduce licensing/infrastructure costs. Clearsense also launched a managed service offering.
• ChipAgentsmidTechnology or Integration · 24 June 2026ChipAgents joined the AWS Partner Network to scale its Agentic AI platform for semiconductor design, leveraging AWS Marketplace, cloud infrastructure and Bedrock model serving. Reports 15x faster specification reading, 240x reduction in formal assertion generation and 400x faster UVM environment generation.
• Classiq & HatchmidTechnology or Integration · 24 June 2026Classiq and Hatch completed a quantum-classical computational chemistry PoC executed via AWS and Amazon Braket for Singapore's Home Team Dimension X challenge, combining Density Functional Theory with a variational quantum eigensolver.
• ApexonmidImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 24 June 2026Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to deliver Agentic AI deployment, cloud-native modernization and digital engineering for Healthcare & Life Sciences. Leverages Apexon's AgentRise platform alongside AWS HealthLake, Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker. Validated 30–50% productivity improvements across regulated BioPharma workflows.
• Nvidiaflagship / strategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026Sweeping infrastructure partnership integrating Nvidia GPU architecture directly into AWS OpenSearch and EC2 services. Targets enterprise AI production bottlenecks including latency, vector search performance, GPU economics and scalability. Amazon simultaneously plans to deploy one million Nvidia chips in AWS data centers over the next year.
• Marvell TechnologystrategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 2026Five-year, multi-generational agreement covering custom AI products, optical components and data center interconnect solutions. Marvell expects AI-related revenue to exceed $2.5B in fiscal 2026.
• Infineon Technologies AGstrategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 2026Joint cloud platform for virtual evaluation of automotive microcontrollers, built on AWS Virtual Engineering Workbench with Infineon's next-generation RISC-V architecture. Reduces evaluation cycles from weeks to minutes; available to select customers from Q3 2026.
• Amdocs & PLDT HomemidStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 2026Amdocs Store Genie agentic AI customer service powered by AWS Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expanded to PLDT Home, serving 750 frontline agents across 149 locations. Reduced order inquiry time from 10 hours to 2 minutes, 95% reduction in token costs, avoided 61,000+ hours of customer wait time, resolved 44,000+ inquiries, increased frontline productivity by 25%.
• OpsGurumidImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 23 June 2026AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that achieved AWS Data & Analytics Competency and launched the Energy Lakehouse Accelerator on AWS Marketplace (cuts AI deployment timelines from 6–12 months to weeks).
• LightedgemidImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 23 June 2026AWS Premier Partner headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, that achieved AWS Small and Medium Business Competency to serve financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and retail SMBs.
• ArcelorMittalflagship / strategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Strategic collaboration to accelerate industrial automation across ArcelorMittal's global operations using cloud, AI and edge technologies, enabling predictive maintenance, computer-vision quality control, process optimisation and digital twins across 60 countries and 14 primary steelmaking sites. Amazon also signed a multi-year Supply Framework Agreement with ArcelorMittal for lower-carbon XCarb® steel across Europe and the UK.
• StripestrategicTechnology or Integration · 22 June 2026Stripe partnered with AWS to integrate its payment infrastructure into AWS's Web Application Firewall, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for digital content using HTTP 402 Payment Required responses and the Machine Payments Protocol. Funds flow to publishers through Stripe.
• WPP Enterprise Solutionsflagship / strategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement to help enterprise clients deploy generative and agentic AI at production scale across commerce, customer experience and marketing operations. Combines WPP's engineering capabilities with AWS Bedrock, Amazon Marketing Cloud and pre-built solutions like Composable Content Engine (up to 90% reduction in content production time). United Rentals is an early adopter with ~70% improvement in equipment matching.
• QuEra Computingflagship / strategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Expanded multi-year strategic collaboration to bring Libra, QuEra's first fault-tolerant quantum computer, to Amazon Braket in 2028, targeting more than 256 error-corrected logical qubits at logical error rate of 10⁻⁶. Earlier collaboration also includes QuEra's gigaquop-class system roadmap for 2028–2029.
• PennyMac Financial ServicesmidStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Expanded strategic agreement to integrate generative AI capabilities (conversational AI-powered virtual assistants) into mortgage application and servicing processes on AWS.
• USANmidTechnology or Integration · 22 June 2026AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with 36+ years of contact center experience; launched Evolve 90, a 90-day managed services go-live program for Amazon Connect migrations, available in AWS Marketplace.
• ETS Connect UKmidTechnology or Integration · 22 June 2026UK's appointed bond Consolidated Tape Provider, launched its UK bond Consolidated Tape service built on AWS cloud infrastructure, with 98% contributor coverage by notional trade value at inception, operating on standards-based APIs aligned with FIX Trading Community Recommended Practices.
• EPAM Systems & TGSmidStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 June 2026EPAM and TGS deployed TGS Imaging AnyWare on AWS, migrating seismic imaging and subsurface workflows to a cloud-native, AI-ready platform. EPAM also announced an expanded generative AI partnership with AWS in late April.
• WorkdaystrategicTechnology or Integration · 19 June 2026Significant integration between Workday Data Cloud and AWS enabling developers to access AWS data and AI services directly on Workday data without replication. Introduces Workday Data Lake, Workday Data Connect, and Workday Live Data Query, initially available to select AWS customers in pre-release, with broader rollout in 2H 2026.
• CrowdStrikeflagship / strategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 June 2026Expanded alliance to secure enterprise AI agents and address frontier AI risk. CrowdStrike integrated Falcon AI Detection and Response into AWS Bedrock, Kiro and Strands Agents and became an inaugural AWS Agentic AI Specialization Partner with over 110 native AWS integrations. Widened Project QuiltWorks and added Atos for AI sovereignty and governance.
• Kyndrylflagship / strategicImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 19 June 2026Expanded multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement to help enterprise customers adopt, deploy and scale agentic AI across mission-critical workloads. AWS invests in Kyndryl's talent development, joint solution engineering and AI specialization, supporting 11,000+ AWS-certified professionals. Co-developing industry-specific agentic AI modernization blueprints. Kyndryl also became a launch partner for AWS's European Sovereign Cloud initiative.
• NEURA RoboticsmidStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 June 2026Established a formal strategic collaboration with AWS and a co-development partnership with Qualcomm to anchor expansion into the U.S. market. Showcased at Automate 2026 in Chicago.
• Databricks & Google CloudstrategicTechnology or Integration · 19 June 2026AWS and Google Cloud are expanding their AI security offerings alongside Databricks (acquiring Panther Labs, Antimatter, SiftD) in a broader industry shift to AI-focused security M&A.
• Real ChemistrymidStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 June 2026Real Chemistry advancing its AI-powered omnichannel orchestration platform through a collaboration with AWS using AWS cloud and AI services including Amazon SageMaker, following the integration of Greater Than One, Spring Bond and existing media operations into Real Chemistry Media (~450 media experts and 150 data/analytics professionals).
• Orion InnovationmidImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 19 June 2026Achieved AWS Migration Competency, qualifying it for AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) to deliver enterprise migration/modernization at scale.
• DoiTmidImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 19 June 2026Inaugural AWS Business Value Realization (BVR) Competency partner at AWS Summit NYC; DoiT's 12th AWS specialization. Part of a five-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement aimed at generating $5 billion in business.
• ZelisstrategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 June 2026Zelis selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, migrating workloads to AWS and deploying Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick, and Kiro for AI-powered healthcare pricing and claims.
• AutodeskstrategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2026Strategic collaboration agreement to advance cloud-based design solutions for customers, leveraging AWS infrastructure for Autodesk's customers.
• MaintainX (via Autodesk)midStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2026Autodesk acquired MaintainX for $3.6B and signed a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS on June 3 to advance cloud-based design solutions, expanding AWS's reach into maintenance and asset management workflows.
• Rio TintomidStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Rio Tinto collaboration to supply Nuton copper for AWS data-center components, supporting clean-energy infrastructure.
• Mendix (a Siemens company)midStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Mendix uses AWS European Sovereign Cloud to address operational, data, and technical sovereignty for highly regulated industries in Europe (banking, financial services, aerospace and defense); supports DORA and other EU regulations.
• DedalusmidStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Europe's largest healthcare software provider uses AWS European Sovereign Cloud to deliver standardized solutions that meet Europe-wide regulatory frameworks, including the European Health Data Space (EHDS), supporting 540 million patients across 30+ countries.
• Microsoft Azureindustry co-defendant in eu dma gatekeeper designationOthers · 1 January 2026Microsoft Azure and AWS are jointly designated (preliminary) as gatekeepers under the EU Digital Markets Act; together they control over 65% of EU cloud infrastructure revenue. Not a commercial partnership, but a regulatory co-defendant relationship.
• Wickrstrategic / acquiredStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2021AWS acquired Wickr to bring secure, end-to-end encrypted messaging, voice, video and file sharing to public sector and enterprise customers (e.g., U.S. Department of Defense, Discover Financial Services). Used to strengthen relationships with military and Washington entities.

Scale indicators24 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance17 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries30 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A13 records

Investments228 records

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