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Introduction
Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is Amazon's cloud computing and API service. It offers functionality across nearly every type of computing, from robotics to blockchain to machine learning. Essentially, if a business (or government department, as AWS is used from NASA to the U.S. Navy) needs more computing power, AWS is ready to facilitate it.
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Cloud Computing • Advertising and Marketing Analytics Solutions • Financial Services • Game Tech Software • Health Care & Life Sciences • Manufacturing Cloud Operations
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About the Company
Based in Seattle, Amazon Web Services (AWS) runs Amazon’s cloud business, and with annual revenue growing from $25 billion in 2018 to $45 billion in 2020, has been considered the real growth-driver behind Amazon for several years. Always on the lookout for good software engineers, AWS is expressly responsible for cloud computing; advertising and marketing analytics solutions; financial services (banking, payments, capital markets, insurance); game tech software; health care and life services; manufacturing cloud operations; and others.
Pay rates and benefits are commensurate with other divisions in corporate Amazon, but the shining attractor towards working at AWS is the people: Everyone there is a wizard at software engineering—including you. Support, HR, and administrative personnel are sourced from the main Amazon corporation, s...