Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform by Amazon. This comprehensive suite of cloud computing services allows for on-demand computing. There are four buckets that are featured with AWS, Compute, Storage & Content Delivery, Databases, and Networking. You can control all of these at a high level with extensive administrative controls accessible via a secure Web Client. Identity management, auditing, encryption key creation/control/storage, monitoring and logging, and more are some of the tools that are included.