Whether you are starting your cloud journey or you have a cloud first strategy, Amazon Web Services has a solution to help facilitate teaching and learning, launch student analytics initiatives, and manage IT operations. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services — now widely known as cloud computing. AWS delivers a set of compute, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, application and deploy services that lower costs, scale applications, respond quickly in emergencies and meet the ever-changing needs of the modern student.