Facts about Amazon Web Services

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   EC2, Amazon Web Services' virtual server product, introduced the concept of paying for compute capacity by the hour rather than through long-term contracts.

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   Simple Storage Service, known as S3, stores objects using a flat namespace rather than a traditional file hierarchy, enabling virtually unlimited scalability.

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   Amazon Web Services operates data centers across dozens of geographic regions worldwide, each containing multiple isolated availability zones for redundancy.

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   The largest cloud infrastructure provider in the world, Amazon Web Services generates more operating profit than Amazon's entire retail business.

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   Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services pioneered the modern cloud computing market with services like S3 and EC2.

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