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====== Amazon Web Services (AWS) ======

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===== Discussion =====

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 [[public:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:d:deployment_platform|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.

===== Definition =====

*commercial cloud computing platform provided by Amazon Web Services, Inc.*

===== Source =====

  * [[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/introduction.html|Amazon Web Services, Overview of Amazon Web Services]]
  * [[https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/|Amazon Web Services, What Is AWS?]]

===== Note =====

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.

===== Example =====

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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