AWS

Short for Amazon Web Service, AWS is a collection of services offered by Amazon.com that began in 2006. AWS offers a cloud computing web service that provides users or companies of any size the ability to tap into Amazon's web infrastructure and be able to use their servers to scale up to any size and only pay for the services that are used. For example, this could allow a company that experiences heavy traffic during a holiday season to have the servers capable of handling the requirements needed to meet the demand during that time but not have to pay for the same expensive servers during the slow times.

• The official Amazon Web Services page is found at http://aws.amazon.com/.

Also see: Cloud computing, Mechanical Turk