AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive and widely adopted cloud platform offered by Amazon. It provides a vast array of on-demand cloud computing services, including computing power, storage, databases, machine learning, analytics, and networking. AWS enables businesses to scale and innovate quickly by providing infrastructure and application services that are flexible, scalable, and cost-effective. Key services include Amazon EC2 for compute, Amazon S3 for storage, Amazon RDS for databases, and AWS Lambda for serverless computing. AWS is widely used by organizations of all sizes to deploy, manage, and scale applications in the cloud.