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title: "Amazon Web Services: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-amazon-web-services
type: Organization
wikidata: Q456157
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
website: https://aws.amazon.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Amazon Web Services

> Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-amazon-web-services

## Facts

- Category: Data and infrastructure
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2006-03-01
- Headquarters: Seattle
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://aws.amazon.com/
- Also known as: aws.amazon.com
- Industries: cloud computing

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/awscloud
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd6MoB9NC6uYN2grvUNT-Zg
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amazonwebservices

## Key people

- James Gosling (Canadian computer scientist)
- Anima Anandkumar (Indian-American computer scientist)
- Leonardo de Moura (American computer scientist, known for Lean and Z3)
- Mona Diab (computational linguist and responsible AI researcher)

## Ownership

Parent: [Amazon](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-amazon.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Amazon Web Services, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-amazon-web-services#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456157, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

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