Amazon Web Services is a commercial Cloud Provider that supplies computing, storage, networking, database, security, management, and related technology services through geographically distributed cloud infrastructure.
Amazon Web Services commonly uses the abbreviation AWS.
Within Crucible, Amazon Web Services can serve as a Deployment Platform on which Crucible creates and manages Infrastructure Environments.
Amazon Web Services provides proprietary service interfaces, resource models, identity mechanisms, configuration formats, and operational services. A Crucible Provider Implementation can isolate those provider-specific dependencies from provider-independent Crucible Descriptions and Infrastructure Baselines.
*commercial cloud computing platform provided by Amazon Web Services, Inc.*
The abbreviation AWS refers to Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Web Services identifies a named Cloud Provider and Deployment Platform. The term does not identify a specific AWS service, account, region, availability zone, or deployed Infrastructure Environment.
A Crucible Provider Implementation translates a provider-independent Infrastructure Baseline into AWS resources, including virtual networks, compute instances, storage resources, identity policies, and security controls.
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