Glossary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) –
Amazon Web Services is a suite of
cloud
computing
services that make a comprehensive
cloud platform offered by
Amazon.com. AWS offers over three dozen cloud services spanning
the
IaaS
,
PaaS
, and
SaaS
models of
cloud computing, and is the most
popular
cloud service provider
, with nearly 30% global market share in cloud IaaS,
as of 2015. Well-known AWS services include Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic
Beanstalk, and Amazon S3.
Application –
An application is a group of computer programs designed to
allow a user to perform a set of functions or tasks.